How to edit a page, How to write a great article, Naming conventions, Manual of Style, policies, recent changes, help pages, village pump, my talk page, Wikipedian, assigning those to your username. You can sign your name using three tildes, like this: fabiform | talk. If you use four, you can add a datestamp too. Again, welcome! :) fabiform | talk 14:53, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) — made shorter Monedula 16:47, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Russian History Harmonization
Hi, I see you are busy with Russian geography! Please take a look at Naming conventions, not to say about other guides the guy above recommended. In particular, it is cusomary to name, say Kostroma River and Kostroma, Russia (in the cases when a disambiguation is required). If you feel that the name of the river is not widely known, while the city is popular, you may leave simply Kostroma.
By the way, I hope you are checking for other spellings may have already present in Wikipedia, like, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy/ Pereslavl-Zalesski, or Cherepovets/ Cherepovec. I usually perform search for all variants (you wouldn't believe how these English may twist simple Russian words :-) and create links, if missing. Linking data is just as important as creating articles. Good luck! Mikkalai 08:04, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Would you add the Russian names to Vladimir-Suzdal' and Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd, please? -- Kaihsu 23:22, 2004 Feb 17 (UTC)
Done! — Monedula 16:45, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Redundant names serve two purposes: (1) they "trap" references from other wikipedai pages (2) they serve as keywords for google search.
Therefore a proper way to remove redundant references is following:
Mikkalai 21:24, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
When adding or editing an article about a Russian, please make sure he is in List of famous Russians. Mikkalai 21:50, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I don't agree with putting accents on Russian names. First of all, Russian doesn't use accent marks. Second, the people most likely to need accents can't read Cyrillic in the first place. (It also seems rather overkill to accent single syllable words.) -- Jose Ramos 05:38, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
— You are wrong. Russian does use accent marks whenever it is necessary to disambiguate meaning or when introducing a little-known word. In Russian encyclopedias and dictionaries head words are always provided with accents. Also in beginner's reader books for foreigners studying Russian all texts throughout have accents. Moreover, even Russian people sometimes do not know the place of accent. So putting accents on all Russian names seems indispensable. (Accenting one-syllable words is overkill, of course, but I like it better.) Monedula 11:40, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Óf cóurse, Énglish díctionaries álso pút áccent márks ón wórds, but we don't normally use accent marks.
I think there's a big difference between dictionaries and language books for beginners on the one hand, and an enclyclopedia, on the other. -- Jose Ramos
— The Rabinovich issue clearly shows that you are wrong. If we don't put accent there, how will people know the correct pronunciation? Putting accents on all Russian words simply gives you more information at no cost, so it makes Wikipedia only better. — Monedula 12:40, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Providing accents on Russian word entries is useful to some of us. I am not a native Russian speaker and mostly encounter Russian in written form, so it's nice to have some indication of stress. However, the accent you added in the entry vareniki seems to be over the "n," giving "варе́ник[и]." Surely this should be "вар́еник[и]" - at least, that's how it looks in my dictionary. In other entries where you have added in Russian accents, I also see the accent marks over consonants. Is this some strange rendering issue, or a convention I'm not familiar with? In all of the Russian textbooks for English speakers that I have seen, and in English-Russian dictionaries, I have always seen the accent drawn over the stressed vowel, and in no case over a consonant. Reuben
Hi Monedula-- An awesome quote. I'd never thought of patriotism as slavery before but I can see Tolstoy's point.
Quick query: is "slaverish" a typo or some word I've never seen before?
-- Opus33 20:26, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Tolstoy's social and political views were quite radical. Presently, many people read Tolstoy's fiction, but few are aware of his propagandist pamphlets. Tolstoy viewed all governments as evil, and preached a sort of christian-pacifist anarchism.
As to "slaverish", it should be changed to "slavish".
— Monedula 21:52, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Someone claimed here in wikipedia that putting accents makes words unsearchable by Google and started replacing them by bold letters. Please stop putting accents until the issue is clarified. Mikkalai 22:41, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
— Russian accents (done with the U+0301 character) are in strict compliance with the Unicode standard. The support for this will grow in the near future. (Probably we should suggest to the Google people that they ajust their routines for searching Russian text — i.e. before string comparison, the U+0301 character must be removed.) And imitating accents with bold letters is a BAD THING, because it is non-standard and ad hoc. — Monedula 23:04, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Meet me at the Wikipedia:Village pump#Transliterations from Russian. Mikkalai
I've replied to Mikkalai's post above. I've posted a proposal there and created a place for discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. as a place to discuss all this. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 03:19, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I want to congratulate you on all the work you did on Chinese element names! You did a wonderful job, and I am impressed by how quickly you did it. I also wanted to let you know that I've moved the page to periodic table (Chinese), so that it is consistent with such articles as periodic table (standard), periodic table (big), periodic table (electron configurations), Periodic table (metals and non-metals), etc. -- Lowellian 23:53, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC) (Responses should be directed to my Talk page.)
Kudos!
--
Ruhrjung 00:56, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Spaseba for providing the Russian on Beliaev! -- DavidA 00:13, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the minor corrections to my corrections - typographics has never been my strong side :)
I do, however, have some questions regarding the changes:
I understand that you are from Yaroslavl area yourself, and must be personally attached to this article :) (I know I am to the articles on my region). I am just working on articles' consistency, and it is little things like this that make wikipedia a psychodelic mosaic at times. Any input or suggestions will be much appreciated. -- Ezhiki 18:58, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
-- Ezhiki 20:03, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
-- Ezhiki 22:35, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I cut some text from Cyrillic alphabet to make the article. You may wish to upgrade it. For some reason, Yer doesn't show any backlinks, although it referred from several articles. Mikkalai 19:39, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
I noticed you had done character lists for the Webdings & Wingdings fonts. Would you be able to provide ones for Wingdings 2 & 3? I have linked to Wingdings 2 from the no symbol article.
Thank you for showing me your source, though I don't completely agree with the source. By the way, in the article you showed me, where "Westernized nobility and lower classes" is mentioned, what is the significance of adding "Westernized" in the section?-- Marcus2
I heard that Peter's father Aleksey I made some western reforms before him, anyway. And I don't think Peter forced the nobles to smoke tobacco and drink coffee. And in his case, when you say he introduced European-style dress, isn't that basically clothing? -- Marcus2
Hi, Monedula! Since you list Unicode among your interest, could you, please, take a look at the Bashkortostan/Temp page? I am having trouble figuring out how to capitalize the letters (in bold here) in "БАШҡОРТОСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАһЫ" — the name of the republic in Bashkir on top of the info box on the right side. It would, of course, help if I knew the Bashkir language, but unfortunately I don't. Your help will be much appreciated!-- Ëzhiki 18:19, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hey, Monedula!
Would you please stop your post-imperial propaganda in the articles related to Ukraine. If you can documentally prove that Ukrainian was "being used" in USSR in the fields you specify - so do it on the page, cite. And even if you do - your anyway would be lying or misinformed because Sovdepia was purely Byzantine system of lying, hiding and falsing. I was born in 1977 and never seen such usage. AlexPU 15:19, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello. There is no need to make those redirects for When, Maybe, Whence, etc. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. We have Wiktionary for that. Please stop. Thanks. Danny 14:41, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The thing is that there are no pages that actually link words like but, then, whence, etc., so there is no reason for the redirects. Danny 14:54, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have to agree with Danny. The only other use of redirects is to catch alternative searches - but these words don't work on a search anyway. -- sannse (talk) 14:56, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Dear Monedula, please refrain from comments such as the one I've cited below. This is considered a personal attack and is against Wikipedia policy -- see Wikipedia:No personal attacks.
Bol'shoye spasibo, BCorr| Брайен 13:04, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I notice you rv'd Roman Forum; the same anon has been doing the same stuff to lots of other pages this morning, and I'm going to go fix them: is there some easy way of reverting, or do I have to copy and paste and adjust?? Thanks for any help. — Bill 11:52, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Very useful picture but I think you've forgotten to tell us which country that set of road signs applies to. Please put the info in the pic caption. Thanks. - Adrian Pingstone 21:09, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hello!
I see from your contributions that you are interested in Russian topics. Perhaps you would like to join the new Russian wikipedians' notice board? It is a discussion forum for wikipedians interested in all things Russian. Also, each week we pick an unfinished stub article to improve through collaboration.
Every week, a lacking
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Isn't it about time we got articles on Russia up to standard?
Hope to see you on RWNB!
Seabhcán 12:24, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
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Greetings. I've been image tagging, and I came across Image:Chess symbols.PNG. Some fonts are copyrighted, so I'm not sure whether the image is free or not. Can you tell me what 2 fonts were used, and whether they are copyrighted or not? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) ( help) 19:09, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I've done a lot more sleuthing on this topic, and found out some surprizing things.
All this leads me to conclude that Image:Chess symbols.PNG should be tagged as {{PD-ineligible}}, and I'll do so. Cheers, – Quadell ( talk) ( help) 20:23, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Please help us to get things under control in False Dmitriy I, Vasili IV of Russia, and Michael I of Russia. Polish nationalists repeatedly include Wladislaus IV of Poland in the list of Russian tsars and delete Nicholas I (who was crowned as king of Poland in Warsaw) from the list of Polish rulers. Thanks. Ghirlandajo 09:25, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Yesterday I was cleaning after an anonymous who was inserting garbage. So, I removed that person's contributions to latin until somebody who really knew the topic could confirm those insertions were really correct. By the way, are you sure those are correct, or they just "seem so"? Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 18:49, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Roadsign-priority.png and Image:Roadsign-warning.png. I notice they currently don't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Duk 00:35, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Can you tell me its purpose? Better, can you write about it in its talk page? Mikkalai 07:12, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Your Template:Chset-tableformat is cool. I only doubt, whether monospace is a good choice. For some scripts I don't have monospace fonts, the proportional ones are much easier to find nowadays. -- Pjacobi 12:43, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
Discuss this at Talk:Obsolete Russian weights and measures. This is trivia; they are obsolete. Having English, Russian, and Tatar language on the same page is helpful. Gene Nygaard 14:28, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Well, Russian is my second or third language, not my first like yours, but I must admit that accent marks in Cyrillic do grate on me. I'm not about to get into an edit war with you about it (i.e. on Tolstoy), and though I agree with you that the marks are "educational," I don't think it is necessarily Wikipedia's function to serve as a primer for beginning students of foreign languages. I don't expect, nor have I ever seen, orthographic aids in other non-Latin script in Wikipedia (such as names written in the original Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.), so I don't see why Russian 101-style accent marks must be provided for Russian names, especially as they are not used outside of the very specific area of language instruction.
You also mention that such accent marks are found in all Russian encyclopedias; however, I should point out that this is not a Russian encyclopedia!
So while I'm not going to go around reversing your edits, I will continue to excise Russian accent marks whenever I happen to encounter them, and I just wanted to let you know my reasoning behind this. Cheers, dablaze 13:22, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
Gerade habe ich gesehen, dass du (Monedula) auch Deutsch sprichst. Auf de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Namenskonventionen/Kyrillisch#Betonung_von_kyrillischen_Namen werden gerade Akzente im Kyrillischen diskutiert, mit im Moment eher negativem Resultat.-- Hhielscher 13:37, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Многие путают ударения и диакритические знаки над буквами (думают, что в русском алфавите есть отдельные буквы с чёрточками), например встретив в Википедии русское имя с ударениями говорят, что в их источнике буквы без чёрточек. Я думаю лучше не ставить ударения в английской Википедии — это избыточная информация. -- ajvol 19:22, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Someone looked into the bug you found about html zero characters, and it turns out its caused by a bug in php's "tidy" library ( http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=4202). I guess it will be fixed when the PHP people fix it. -- John Fader ( talk | contribs) 14:45, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Occupied_territories_of_Baltic_States Mikkalai 22:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
hi, my russian friend. i am from china. i want to know the local names of the USSR. can you tell me?
i only know the local name as follow:
russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,
ukrainian: Союз Радянських Соціалістичних Республік,
belrussian: Саюза Савецкіх Сацыялістычных Рэспублік,
Lietuvių: Tarybinių Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga
Latviešu: Padomju Sociālistisko Republiku Savienība
Eesti: Nõukogude Sotsialistlike Vabariikide Liit
but i want to know other local names. can you help me?? thank you very much! -- icywind 02:45, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 13:41, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
Ако разумеш шта овде пише, додај и српски међу језике које говориш ;)
Really impressive collection of language babels, it's amazing! Howewer it is strange that Serbian isn't among listed languages, especially since it is very similar to Russian and Bulgarian for example :) -- Obradović Goran (talk 23:54, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
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Hi,
Just left something on Template talk:Lang for you that I probably should've put here.
How to edit a page, How to write a great article, Naming conventions, Manual of Style, policies, recent changes, help pages, village pump, my talk page, Wikipedian, assigning those to your username. You can sign your name using three tildes, like this: fabiform | talk. If you use four, you can add a datestamp too. Again, welcome! :) fabiform | talk 14:53, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC) — made shorter Monedula 16:47, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Russian History Harmonization
Hi, I see you are busy with Russian geography! Please take a look at Naming conventions, not to say about other guides the guy above recommended. In particular, it is cusomary to name, say Kostroma River and Kostroma, Russia (in the cases when a disambiguation is required). If you feel that the name of the river is not widely known, while the city is popular, you may leave simply Kostroma.
By the way, I hope you are checking for other spellings may have already present in Wikipedia, like, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy/ Pereslavl-Zalesski, or Cherepovets/ Cherepovec. I usually perform search for all variants (you wouldn't believe how these English may twist simple Russian words :-) and create links, if missing. Linking data is just as important as creating articles. Good luck! Mikkalai 08:04, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Would you add the Russian names to Vladimir-Suzdal' and Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd, please? -- Kaihsu 23:22, 2004 Feb 17 (UTC)
Done! — Monedula 16:45, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Redundant names serve two purposes: (1) they "trap" references from other wikipedai pages (2) they serve as keywords for google search.
Therefore a proper way to remove redundant references is following:
Mikkalai 21:24, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
When adding or editing an article about a Russian, please make sure he is in List of famous Russians. Mikkalai 21:50, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I don't agree with putting accents on Russian names. First of all, Russian doesn't use accent marks. Second, the people most likely to need accents can't read Cyrillic in the first place. (It also seems rather overkill to accent single syllable words.) -- Jose Ramos 05:38, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
— You are wrong. Russian does use accent marks whenever it is necessary to disambiguate meaning or when introducing a little-known word. In Russian encyclopedias and dictionaries head words are always provided with accents. Also in beginner's reader books for foreigners studying Russian all texts throughout have accents. Moreover, even Russian people sometimes do not know the place of accent. So putting accents on all Russian names seems indispensable. (Accenting one-syllable words is overkill, of course, but I like it better.) Monedula 11:40, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Óf cóurse, Énglish díctionaries álso pút áccent márks ón wórds, but we don't normally use accent marks.
I think there's a big difference between dictionaries and language books for beginners on the one hand, and an enclyclopedia, on the other. -- Jose Ramos
— The Rabinovich issue clearly shows that you are wrong. If we don't put accent there, how will people know the correct pronunciation? Putting accents on all Russian words simply gives you more information at no cost, so it makes Wikipedia only better. — Monedula 12:40, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Providing accents on Russian word entries is useful to some of us. I am not a native Russian speaker and mostly encounter Russian in written form, so it's nice to have some indication of stress. However, the accent you added in the entry vareniki seems to be over the "n," giving "варе́ник[и]." Surely this should be "вар́еник[и]" - at least, that's how it looks in my dictionary. In other entries where you have added in Russian accents, I also see the accent marks over consonants. Is this some strange rendering issue, or a convention I'm not familiar with? In all of the Russian textbooks for English speakers that I have seen, and in English-Russian dictionaries, I have always seen the accent drawn over the stressed vowel, and in no case over a consonant. Reuben
Hi Monedula-- An awesome quote. I'd never thought of patriotism as slavery before but I can see Tolstoy's point.
Quick query: is "slaverish" a typo or some word I've never seen before?
-- Opus33 20:26, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Tolstoy's social and political views were quite radical. Presently, many people read Tolstoy's fiction, but few are aware of his propagandist pamphlets. Tolstoy viewed all governments as evil, and preached a sort of christian-pacifist anarchism.
As to "slaverish", it should be changed to "slavish".
— Monedula 21:52, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Someone claimed here in wikipedia that putting accents makes words unsearchable by Google and started replacing them by bold letters. Please stop putting accents until the issue is clarified. Mikkalai 22:41, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
— Russian accents (done with the U+0301 character) are in strict compliance with the Unicode standard. The support for this will grow in the near future. (Probably we should suggest to the Google people that they ajust their routines for searching Russian text — i.e. before string comparison, the U+0301 character must be removed.) And imitating accents with bold letters is a BAD THING, because it is non-standard and ad hoc. — Monedula 23:04, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Meet me at the Wikipedia:Village pump#Transliterations from Russian. Mikkalai
I've replied to Mikkalai's post above. I've posted a proposal there and created a place for discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(places)#Transliteration_of_Russian_place_names. as a place to discuss all this. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 03:19, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
I want to congratulate you on all the work you did on Chinese element names! You did a wonderful job, and I am impressed by how quickly you did it. I also wanted to let you know that I've moved the page to periodic table (Chinese), so that it is consistent with such articles as periodic table (standard), periodic table (big), periodic table (electron configurations), Periodic table (metals and non-metals), etc. -- Lowellian 23:53, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC) (Responses should be directed to my Talk page.)
Kudos!
--
Ruhrjung 00:56, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Spaseba for providing the Russian on Beliaev! -- DavidA 00:13, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the minor corrections to my corrections - typographics has never been my strong side :)
I do, however, have some questions regarding the changes:
I understand that you are from Yaroslavl area yourself, and must be personally attached to this article :) (I know I am to the articles on my region). I am just working on articles' consistency, and it is little things like this that make wikipedia a psychodelic mosaic at times. Any input or suggestions will be much appreciated. -- Ezhiki 18:58, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
-- Ezhiki 20:03, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
-- Ezhiki 22:35, May 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I cut some text from Cyrillic alphabet to make the article. You may wish to upgrade it. For some reason, Yer doesn't show any backlinks, although it referred from several articles. Mikkalai 19:39, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
I noticed you had done character lists for the Webdings & Wingdings fonts. Would you be able to provide ones for Wingdings 2 & 3? I have linked to Wingdings 2 from the no symbol article.
Thank you for showing me your source, though I don't completely agree with the source. By the way, in the article you showed me, where "Westernized nobility and lower classes" is mentioned, what is the significance of adding "Westernized" in the section?-- Marcus2
I heard that Peter's father Aleksey I made some western reforms before him, anyway. And I don't think Peter forced the nobles to smoke tobacco and drink coffee. And in his case, when you say he introduced European-style dress, isn't that basically clothing? -- Marcus2
Hi, Monedula! Since you list Unicode among your interest, could you, please, take a look at the Bashkortostan/Temp page? I am having trouble figuring out how to capitalize the letters (in bold here) in "БАШҡОРТОСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАһЫ" — the name of the republic in Bashkir on top of the info box on the right side. It would, of course, help if I knew the Bashkir language, but unfortunately I don't. Your help will be much appreciated!-- Ëzhiki 18:19, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)
Hey, Monedula!
Would you please stop your post-imperial propaganda in the articles related to Ukraine. If you can documentally prove that Ukrainian was "being used" in USSR in the fields you specify - so do it on the page, cite. And even if you do - your anyway would be lying or misinformed because Sovdepia was purely Byzantine system of lying, hiding and falsing. I was born in 1977 and never seen such usage. AlexPU 15:19, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello. There is no need to make those redirects for When, Maybe, Whence, etc. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. We have Wiktionary for that. Please stop. Thanks. Danny 14:41, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
The thing is that there are no pages that actually link words like but, then, whence, etc., so there is no reason for the redirects. Danny 14:54, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I have to agree with Danny. The only other use of redirects is to catch alternative searches - but these words don't work on a search anyway. -- sannse (talk) 14:56, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Dear Monedula, please refrain from comments such as the one I've cited below. This is considered a personal attack and is against Wikipedia policy -- see Wikipedia:No personal attacks.
Bol'shoye spasibo, BCorr| Брайен 13:04, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I notice you rv'd Roman Forum; the same anon has been doing the same stuff to lots of other pages this morning, and I'm going to go fix them: is there some easy way of reverting, or do I have to copy and paste and adjust?? Thanks for any help. — Bill 11:52, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Very useful picture but I think you've forgotten to tell us which country that set of road signs applies to. Please put the info in the pic caption. Thanks. - Adrian Pingstone 21:09, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hello!
I see from your contributions that you are interested in Russian topics. Perhaps you would like to join the new Russian wikipedians' notice board? It is a discussion forum for wikipedians interested in all things Russian. Also, each week we pick an unfinished stub article to improve through collaboration.
Every week, a lacking
Russian topic is picked to be the
Russian
Collaboration of the Week. |
Notice boards and Collaborations-Of-The-Week have become increasingly popular on wikipedia reciently, with Irish, British, US and many more. There is also a score board for competing collaborations! See FAC.
Isn't it about time we got articles on Russia up to standard?
Hope to see you on RWNB!
Seabhcán 12:24, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Greetings. I've been image tagging, and I came across Image:Chess symbols.PNG. Some fonts are copyrighted, so I'm not sure whether the image is free or not. Can you tell me what 2 fonts were used, and whether they are copyrighted or not? Thanks, – Quadell ( talk) ( help) 19:09, Jan 3, 2005 (UTC)
Okay, I've done a lot more sleuthing on this topic, and found out some surprizing things.
All this leads me to conclude that Image:Chess symbols.PNG should be tagged as {{PD-ineligible}}, and I'll do so. Cheers, – Quadell ( talk) ( help) 20:23, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
Please help us to get things under control in False Dmitriy I, Vasili IV of Russia, and Michael I of Russia. Polish nationalists repeatedly include Wladislaus IV of Poland in the list of Russian tsars and delete Nicholas I (who was crowned as king of Poland in Warsaw) from the list of Polish rulers. Thanks. Ghirlandajo 09:25, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Yesterday I was cleaning after an anonymous who was inserting garbage. So, I removed that person's contributions to latin until somebody who really knew the topic could confirm those insertions were really correct. By the way, are you sure those are correct, or they just "seem so"? Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 18:49, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Roadsign-priority.png and Image:Roadsign-warning.png. I notice they currently don't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Duk 00:35, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Can you tell me its purpose? Better, can you write about it in its talk page? Mikkalai 07:12, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Your Template:Chset-tableformat is cool. I only doubt, whether monospace is a good choice. For some scripts I don't have monospace fonts, the proportional ones are much easier to find nowadays. -- Pjacobi 12:43, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
Discuss this at Talk:Obsolete Russian weights and measures. This is trivia; they are obsolete. Having English, Russian, and Tatar language on the same page is helpful. Gene Nygaard 14:28, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Well, Russian is my second or third language, not my first like yours, but I must admit that accent marks in Cyrillic do grate on me. I'm not about to get into an edit war with you about it (i.e. on Tolstoy), and though I agree with you that the marks are "educational," I don't think it is necessarily Wikipedia's function to serve as a primer for beginning students of foreign languages. I don't expect, nor have I ever seen, orthographic aids in other non-Latin script in Wikipedia (such as names written in the original Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.), so I don't see why Russian 101-style accent marks must be provided for Russian names, especially as they are not used outside of the very specific area of language instruction.
You also mention that such accent marks are found in all Russian encyclopedias; however, I should point out that this is not a Russian encyclopedia!
So while I'm not going to go around reversing your edits, I will continue to excise Russian accent marks whenever I happen to encounter them, and I just wanted to let you know my reasoning behind this. Cheers, dablaze 13:22, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
Gerade habe ich gesehen, dass du (Monedula) auch Deutsch sprichst. Auf de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:Namenskonventionen/Kyrillisch#Betonung_von_kyrillischen_Namen werden gerade Akzente im Kyrillischen diskutiert, mit im Moment eher negativem Resultat.-- Hhielscher 13:37, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Многие путают ударения и диакритические знаки над буквами (думают, что в русском алфавите есть отдельные буквы с чёрточками), например встретив в Википедии русское имя с ударениями говорят, что в их источнике буквы без чёрточек. Я думаю лучше не ставить ударения в английской Википедии — это избыточная информация. -- ajvol 19:22, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Someone looked into the bug you found about html zero characters, and it turns out its caused by a bug in php's "tidy" library ( http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=4202). I guess it will be fixed when the PHP people fix it. -- John Fader ( talk | contribs) 14:45, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Occupied_territories_of_Baltic_States Mikkalai 22:08, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
hi, my russian friend. i am from china. i want to know the local names of the USSR. can you tell me?
i only know the local name as follow:
russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик,
ukrainian: Союз Радянських Соціалістичних Республік,
belrussian: Саюза Савецкіх Сацыялістычных Рэспублік,
Lietuvių: Tarybinių Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga
Latviešu: Padomju Sociālistisko Republiku Savienība
Eesti: Nõukogude Sotsialistlike Vabariikide Liit
but i want to know other local names. can you help me?? thank you very much! -- icywind 02:45, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 13:41, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
Ако разумеш шта овде пише, додај и српски међу језике које говориш ;)
Really impressive collection of language babels, it's amazing! Howewer it is strange that Serbian isn't among listed languages, especially since it is very similar to Russian and Bulgarian for example :) -- Obradović Goran (talk 23:54, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
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Hi,
Just left something on Template talk:Lang for you that I probably should've put here.