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== The history of Sochi==
== Хорошее утро (I know that's wrong)==
Dear Ghirlandajo,
Thank you for your modifications, but please be informed that you are biased against the real people of Sochi and Circassia and i can't believe a real editor and researcher in Wikipedia can remove the truth not because he is not convinced but because the easiest way to him is to remove instead of search for resources , and i can't understand that you removed my contribution by giving a weak reason!!!
What do you mean UNPO.org is not reliable source ????
Please be informed that UNPO stand for Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization not a shop for doing propogandas.
Best Regards,
ShapsougSochi1864
 
== Portrait of Anna Yekaterina Countess Bestuzheva-Ryumina (1693-1761) ==
I concur with this edit of yours here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AGhirlandajo&diff=74097472&oldid=73995493]. I, however, have given into the pressure from your mate [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABishonen&diff=74031207&oldid=74026788] and altered my banner, anything for a quiet life. When it is too late people here will wake up and realise Wikipedia is just a collection of rules and regulations that nobody follows because there is no-one left actually writing the thing. This project could be the best thing in the world, if people would just get down and write it. Anyway you have my support - good luck with the arb-com thing. I'm flabbergasted no-one was brave enough to unblock you yesterday. It is getting very sinister here indeed. [[User:Giano|Giano]] | [[User talk:Giano|talk]] 09:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
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Dear Ghirlandajo,
==Praise==
I've just come across your work and have been browsing through learning a lot about Russia! Thanks very much for your articles, which have really improved Wikipedia's coverage in this area. [[User:86.136.92.2|86.136.92.2]] 14:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 
With respect to a biographical study concerning the celebrated adventurer Friedrich Freiherr von der Trenck I am looking for a portrait of Countess Bestuzheva-Ryumina, the wife of chancellor A. P. Bestuzhev-Riumin. Unfortunately, though a German lady, it seems that there is no portrait of her known in Germany. Can you help?
== [[Tsar]] ==
 
I am looking to hear from you. If possible, can you send me your answer as eMail to
Hi,
andreas_pechtl@hotmail.com ?
could you please explain which of my edits to [[Tsar]] you consider to be OR? And, for that matter, how "my version" is substantially different from yours, except for a slight change of the order of statements? --[[User:194.145.161.227|194.145.161.227]] 20:38, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Yours sincerely,
And BTW, my condolences for the unreasonable warning and unjust block by Tony Sidaway. --[[User:194.145.161.227|194.145.161.227]] 20:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Andreas Pechtl,
:Thank you very much for telling me about the [[Tsargrad]] thing. I just sourced the disputed information. As for the account - I have one, but I'm too lazy to log in most of the time. --[[User:194.145.161.227|194.145.161.227]] 13:29, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 
7 December 2009
== RFA ==
 
== Project Ukraine ==
Well, I did notice you had forgotten about your contact with the proposer, so I started on a little piece, but it got longer and longer. In retrospect, I should have said earlier that Piotrus was only chosen because they could not find anybody else, perhaps Bishonen could have taken that on too when he invited the proposer to withdraw it. I am sorry about this because in any case it means you (and Giano) will have less time to really work on Wikipedia - as for me, I am on a learning curve which does not go so steeply up as Ideogram. The age, I suppose. As for the dwarf remark, oh, I do not know, I have a job and five kids, so any time here is really stolen from them and my wife. Da, idu spat'. Spokoynoy nochi. --[[User:Pan Gerwazy|Pan Gerwazy]] 22:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 
гуд найт! I saw you wrote some excellent new article about Ukraine! Thanks for that! Would you like to join our project Ukraine (click on advert to learn more). We could really need some new articles about the subjects you wrote your last ''Ukrainian'' articles about (there are lots of castles there!)! — [[User:Mariah-Yulia|Mariah-Yulia]] ([[User talk:Mariah-Yulia|talk]]) 21:55, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
== FYI ==
 
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Please see [[Talk:Sukhumi]]. :( &mdash;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User:Khoikhoi|<font color="">Khoikhoi</font>]]</span> 17:58, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== Medieval emporia: Dierkow and Bardy ==
== DYK ==
 
I noticed you removed Dierkow and Bardy from the emporia template. I think they should be re-added. *About Dierkow, there is not much known yet, but this does not automatically make it unimportant or tiny (though there is a possiblity).
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*Dierkow and Bardy are listed here [http://www.google.de/books?id=d47NB589ZO0C&pg=PA142&vq=bardy&dq=bardy+slawisch&lr=&source=gbs_search_s&cad=0 Sebastian Brather, Archäologie der westlichen Slawen: Siedlung, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Ostmitteleuropa, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3110170612, p.142] along with the other emporia now in the template (Groß Strömkendorf/Reric, Dierkow, Ralswiek, Menzlin, Bardy-Swielubie, Jawno Pomorskie/Truso).
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*If you are concerned that each archaeological side at the coast will be added, don't be, there are no more known sites at the present.
|'''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated. On [[7 September]], [[2006]], a fact from the article '''[[Carmo Convent (Lisbon)]]''', which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the [[Main Page]]. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know?" talk page]].
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*"No evidence of non-Slavic presence": This was only true for the early, Carolingian stage of Bardy, as outlined in the next paragraph of the article, the Scandinavians moved in only in the 9th century. I rephrased the article to make that more clear.
Nice nom! --[[User:Srikeit|Srikeit]] <b><sup><small>([[User talk:Srikeit|Talk]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Special:Emailuser/Srikeit|Email]])</small></sup></b> 18:47, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
If you still think it is a bad idea to put them back in, let me know. Regards [[User:Skäpperöd|Skäpperöd]] ([[User talk:Skäpperöd|talk]]) 11:55, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
: Feel free to readd them! By the way, I don't think we should limit the template's scope to the Baltic Sea as you did. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 11:59, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
==Awards==
{{userbox|blue|yellow|[[Image:Raspberry medal.png|68px]]|<big>For creating so many ''Lviv related'' articles, I hereby award you the Ukrainian Barnstar of National Merit. Note the raspberry color of the ribbon, the historical color of the [[Dnieper Cossacks]].</big> — [[User:Mariah-Yulia|Mariah-Yulia]] ([[User talk:Mariah-Yulia|talk]]) 20:26, 5 March 2009 (UTC)}}
 
Thanks. I didn't know that the Cossacks liked raspberries :) More Lviv substubs will be added as soon as I have free time in the Russian Wikipedia. Best, [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 21:47, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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== Question about image ==
 
Hi there. I'm doing some work on tagging featured pictures on the English Wikipedia. Coming across [[:File:Ivan the Terrible and Harsey.jpg|this image]], I found that you [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AIvan_the_Terrible_and_Harsey.jpg&diff=156262509&oldid=156227611 added] a <nowiki>{{NoCommons}}</nowiki> tag. This was back in 2006, and the current preference is to put everything on Commons. Do you have a problem with me asking for this image to be deleted from WP or do you still have a pressing reason? Thanks! ~ <b style="font-size:small;">[[User:Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">ωαdεstεr</span><span style="color:#00FF00">16</span>]]</b><sub>[[User talk:Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">♣</span><span style="color:black">kiss me</span>]]</sub><sup>[[Special:Contributions/Wadester16|<span style="color:black">i'm Irish</span><span style="color:darkgreen">♣</span>]]</sup> 04:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
== Early conceptions of the Channel Tunnel ==
: I'd prefer to keep the local image. Shouldn't we respect each others contributions and attribute them properly. Last year I found it on Main Page of the Wikimedia Commons without any information as to who uploaded and nominated the picture. That was rather disheartening. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:29, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
::Very true. I asked you first b/c I respect the intentions of photographers/image uploaders. That said, this image is actually in the public ___domain (and especially since it's not your work), you really have no say over what happens to it after you upload it. I'm going to have the local copy deleted, but once that occurs, everything will be the same once I reenter the missing data (if you're not aware, Commons images are called to a local Wikipedia and local wikipedia templates can still be added, such as the FP and POTD templates). Sorry for any confusion, but PD images are not needed on Wikipedia; they belong on Commons so every language Wikipedia can access them. Thanks for understanding. ~ <b style="font-size:small;">[[User:Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">ωαdεstεr</span><span style="color:#00FF00">16</span>]]</b><sub>[[User talk:Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">♣T</span>]]</sub><sup>[[Special:Contributions/Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">C♣</span>]]</sup> 21:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
:::FWIW, I [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AIvan_the_Terrible_and_Harsey.jpg&diff=19364268&oldid=19364211 credited] you as the original uploader and [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AIvan_the_Terrible_and_Harsey.jpg&diff=19364211&oldid=19363810 included] much of the info from the local copy to the Commons copy (the caption of the local copy was more complete). Hopefully this doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth, but it's the right thing to do. ~ <b style="font-size:small;">[[User:Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">ωαdεstεr</span><span style="color:#00FF00">16</span>]]</b><sub>[[User talk:Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">♣T</span>]]</sub><sup>[[Special:Contributions/Wadester16|<span style="color:darkgreen">C♣</span>]]</sup> 21:42, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== [[Johann Hermann von Fersen]] ==
I've already sussed one bogus duke from the above page (see talk) now it's your department, was there a Duc de Lille in 1702? - I can't find any evidence of one but it is not my subject. I have a feeling half this article is a hoax, but I'm not sure. You know this sort of thing, can you have a look. I know for sure there was a mid 19th century attempt to dig a tunnel which failed, and Naopoleon thought about a tunnel, bit I think that is it, the rest of the page I suspect is a load of bolox, what say you. [[User:Giano|Giano]] | [[User talk:Giano|talk]] 19:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
: A blatant hoax imho. Memoirs of Saint-Simon are available online at Google books, and I can't find any reference to this anywhere, not even to Duke of Lille, let alone the tunnel. To top it off, the "phantastic dreame" thing looks like a bad attempt to make a French-looking phrase from English. The French article has nothing on the thing either, so I'm tagging it unless the author offers explanations and quotes. -- [[User:Grafikm_fr|<font color="Blue">'''Grafikm'''</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Grafikm_fr|'''<font color="red">(AutoGRAF)</font>''']]</sup> 20:11, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
: Much stuff is available on gallica, but with my current dial-up connection it's of little use for me. Once upon a time, when I was more interested in [[Père Anselme]] than I am now, I compiled [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/titles/franceduc.html this incomplete list of French peerages], which does not list any Ducs de L'isle. What is more interesting, my favourite novelist mentions one Duc de Lille in ''[[Anna Karenina]]'', but that's only a pun on the name of [[Leconte de Lisle]], that is, a mystification. I'll investigate the matter when I have a better connection. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 20:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Interesting move. Do you have a link to attest the German version of his name? I can't seem to find one. [[User:Neddyseagoon|Neddyseagoon]] - [[User talk:Neddyseagoon|talk]] 10:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
== DYK x 3 ==
: See [http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=24220 here], for instance. By the way, the text of the Russian article was taken verbatim from the [[Russian Biographical Dictionary]]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:36, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== [[Luigi Pernier]] ==
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We appreciate all your hard work at DYK and elsewhere in the encyclopedia. Don't let others get you down -- [[User:Samir_(The_Scope)|'''Samir''' ]]<small>[[User_talk:Samir_(The_Scope)|धर्म]]</small> 05:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
*You're quite welcome Ghirla. There are many of us who believe that admins should contribute as well as "administer". Take care -- [[User:Samir_(The_Scope)|'''Samir''' <small>धर्म</small>]] 12:21, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 
On T:TDYK]] you said there was little information in English. That doesn't really matter. Are their other-language sources to use? - [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm]]|[[User talk:MacGyverMagic|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 12:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
==[[Pochayiv Lavra]]==
I saw you originally wrote this page, some major aspects have been changed since you wrote it, but I don't have sources to check for their acuraccy, maybe you can take a look.--[[User:Milicz|Milicz]] 15:43, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:Sorry, the ghirlaphobes don't let me edit peacefully these days. I take a break until next week and then I'll try to take a look what's going on there. Peace, <font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 21:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==Baikoff==
==Please trim your statement on [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration|Requests for arbitration]]==
Hi, Ghirla! When you get a moment, could you check if [[Baikoff|this stub]] is legit? Thanks!—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 14:08, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for making a statement in an Arbitration application on [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration|Requests for arbitration]]. We ask all participants and commentators to limit the size of their initial statements to 500 words. Please trim your statement. If the case is accepted, you will have the opportunity to present more evidence. Neat, concisely presented statements are much more likely to be understood and to influence the decisions of the arbitrators.
: Why, it's a nonsensical joke --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 14:11, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
::Thought as much. Will prod it now. Thanks!—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 14:45, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
 
==Vorotynsk==
For the Arbitration Committee. -- <small> [[User talk:Drini|Drini]]</small> 18:22, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, me again. I've got another question for you, if you don't mind. In the [[Vorotynsk]] article, there is a mention of the village of Spas-on-the-Oka. I was unable to find anything about this village. I also did not quite understand the "which now marks the spot" part—currently, the village (''selo'') of Vorotynsk is located on the ___location of the ancient town, and there is a larger (and newer) settlement (''posyolok'') of Vorotynsk not too far away from it. There is (and, to the best of my knowledge, was) no populated place called "{{lang|ru|Спас-на-Оке}}" anywhere in the vicinity. Could you, please, clarify? Where exactly is Savior Vorotynsk Monastery located, do you know? Same goes for New and Old Vorotynsk villages—are these in reference to the selo and posyolok? Thanks again!—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 15:34, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
* Check map coords here [http://sobory.ru/article/index.html?object=01469]. Spas is referenced on many similar tourist sites, it has postcode 248903 and appears to be administered by the city of Kaluga [http://postindex.ypages.ru/rus/qu1200/ic7676960] [http://www.kaluga.ru/phone/?action=ph&parent=16&id_phone=33] although nearby Vorotynsk is in Babyninsky rayon. [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 18:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC) Correction: the P.O. is in Rosva (Росва on Google maps) which is due north from Vorotynsk, east of Spas. [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 18:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
**Thanks, NVO, it helps, although this still does not resolve everything. In addition to Spas in jurisdiction of Kaluga, there is also another Spas in Babyninsky District; both are listed simply as "Spas", not "Spas-na-Oke" (which is why I ignored them when posting the original note) and none of the two is located on the spot where ancient Vorotynsk stood (the selo of Vorotynsk is in that spot now). Any further ideas?—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 18:49, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
***Here's the almighty KLADR [http://2478996.ru/okato/kaluga.htm], see fifth line from the bottom of list. It is деревня Спас, Спасский сельский округ города Калуги. "Na Oke" is omitted in all official data; it is actually inside Oka-Ugra salient. Kaluga police has a vacancy for a local cop [http://www.uvdkaluga.ru/vash_uchastkovyy/UVD_po_g_Kaluge/] - wanna apply? [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 19:04, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
****Ah yeah, here's the dream job I always wanted, thanks so much :) Regarding Spas, any clues as to when the "-na-Oke" suffix is/was used? Or is it more of a colloquial name that never made it to the official records?
****Anyway, based on this discussion, is everyone going to be OK with me butchering [[Vorotynsk]] a bit? The monastery sentence should be moved to [[Rosva]] (based on the coordinates); "Spas-na-Oke" does not seem to do anything with Vorotynsk except being located fairly close (but definitely not on the spot of old Vorotynsk the town), so its mention can be removed; also removed should be the mentions of New and Old Vorotynsk (which are not officially called that). Sounds good so far? Thanks!—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 20:09, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
****By the way, my 1859 book on inhabited localities of Peremyshlsky Uyezd of Kaluga Governorate lists the selo of Spas (near the Ugra and Oka Rivers) as "Spas or Spasskoye", so the "-na-Oke" designation must be relatively recent.—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 20:14, March&nbsp;6, 2009 (UTC)
 
== DYK for Stroganov Palace ==
== RfA ==
 
Hi Ghirlandajo,
: '''''Cautious support'''. Well, I felt able to say hello ;)
Thanks for your support! &ndash; but cautious...? &nbsp;Did I unwittingly ignore you at some point ("I felt able to say hello...") but, per the smiley, you (thankfully!) don't hold it against me...? &nbsp;If so, my apologies and assurances that it was unintentional. If not, sorry to misunderstand; please enlighten...<br>Yours, [[User:David Kernow|David Kernow]] 18:48, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:I'm so disappointed with admins in general and have been deceived in so many of them lately, that my support for a candidate cannot be but cautious. I remember we had a small disagreement when you wanted to eliminate redirect [[St. Petersburg]]. I'm glad that the issue was solved. Please try to seek a wider consensus before implementing such major edits. As for "hello", I remind you your own edit on this page. I'm sure you will be a great admininstrator. Cheers, <font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 21:38, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:: Ahh yes, I remember now &ndash; I was unwittingly being too [[WP:BOLD|bold]]. Ironically, St. Petersburg has recently passed by me again, this time as regards its [[Administrative divisions of Saint Petersburg|administrative divisions]]; [[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki]] has been helping me make sense of Russian administrative divisions. If you have any knowledge of/interest in this kind of topic, perhaps you might also check the Russian entry [[User:David Kernow/Contemporary national administrative divisions by country|here]], plus those of any other country you might know; meanwhile, any singular forms you know for terms marked "(pl.?)" [[User:David Kernow/List of terms for contemporary national administrative divisions|here]] would also be very welcome. Both these pages are on the verge of being introduced to the encyclopedia proper. Hopefully our meeting again will therefore be propitious! &nbsp;Best wishes, [[User:David Kernow|David Kernow]] 23:16, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:: PS Re "hello", I guess my edit here must be archived. My impression is that it perturbed you, for which my apologies; I try to be constructive at all times, but perhaps my spirits happened to be down. It sounds as though yours are a little down, disillusioned by some administrative activity; if there's anything you're currently working on where some assistance would help to lift them, let me know! &nbsp;Yours, [[User:David Kernow|David]] 23:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 
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==[[St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery]]==
 
Hi Ghirla. Sorry about [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=St._Michael%27s_Golden-Domed_Monastery&diff=74516734&oldid=74209521 that]. I thought that you saw the nomination that I had posted on the Ukrainian announcement board. Or do you not check there? But thanks for your great work on the article, which helped a lot in getting the article to featured status. Thanks again, —[[User:DDima|dima]]'''''[[User talk:DDima|/s-ko/]]''''' 20:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
:It's OK with me. I just happened to be on vacations when the voting was going on. If I had known that the article is to be nominated, I would have surely made some major rewrites. Cheers, <font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 21:33, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 
 
== The Kwen Kven Queen Kwene arbitration case ==
I did not know which title to give [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Response_to_Ghirlandajo_by_uninvolved_User:Pan_Gerwazy this], so I addressed it to you. Hope you do not mind. Have a nice holiday. Er, I mean that. --[[User:Pan Gerwazy|Pan Gerwazy]] 09:54, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 
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:The entry was removed because it failed to meet the inclusion criteria. An article over five days old must have been marked as a stub and must not have exceeded 1,000 characters prior to the expansion. <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onion_dome&oldid=70489720 This article]</span> contained no stub tag, and it was almost 1,500 characters in length (excluding spaces). &mdash;[[User:David Levy|David Levy]] 19:35, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
::Just noticed that the discussion continues on [[Wikipedia talk:Did you know]] and the updaters believe that the article conforms to DYK guidelines. I can't say it was nice of you not to inform me about the discussion. But then, it hardly comes as a surprise that, out of 1000 admins, it was David Levy who spotted the latest Ghirlandajo's disruption. Thanks for your watchfulness. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 17:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==your request,My anduser WPspace in general==
hi Ghirla -- I am myself on a wikibreak, compared to my usual wikitime anyway, right now I'm just looking at my talkpage and doing the odd minor edit. I've also been away and coming back to a pile of work so that I really do not have the leisure to address complicated issues on Wikipedia. For this reason, I do not have the capacity to deal with subjects I am not intimately familiar with, such as [[Mongol invasion of Rus]], sorry. I see, however, that you are yourself being given a rather hard time at the moment, with some rather opaque RfAr (not that I had enough time to look at that either...). I'd just like to assure you of my support, both moral and practical, should you require it. Regarding cases of bad blood that turn Wikipedia sour for us, I'd just like to remind you to take a step back before you get worked up enough to walk away from the whole project in anger -- as you know, I have myself ample experience with the smelly underbelly of Wikipedia: I took it upon myself to deal with a number of obnoxious cases, as a service to the project, in order to make the point that "Wikipedia works" and even persistent dishonest practices will not prevail. But it would be a mistake to over-exert oneself in this area, because these are very thankless efforts. If you feel harassed by the bad blood over a certain topic enough to think about quitting, remember the satisfaction to be got out of building articles on more obscure topics and walk away from the bogged down dispute to enjoy the clear air of virgin articles on minor rulers, obscure birds or forgotten folk-songs (or whatever may catch your fancy). regards, [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;'''</small>)]] 21:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
:Yes indeed! I'll second that. If articles on a broad subject like Spanish Baroque are being boldly retouched by the Incompetent, turn your talents to articles on individual artists and architects, or individual Baroque structures. I learned that lesson with [[Rococo]], which has been eroding drearily since I moved out. --[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] 02:27, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
:I think it would be a good idea to introduce "endorsed versions" of articles on a user by user basis. Or we could form a sort of "senior editors" or "academic snobs" guild, hosting a list of endorsed permanent links to disputed or eroding articles. This wouldn't count as pov-forks since we wouldn't be competing for article namespace, it would just give easy reference to a 'clean' version in cleanup efforts. I think it is too much to ask of productive (productive of content) editors to babysit their work: after 30,000 edits, the babysitting takes up so much effort that you're essentially prevented from adding new content. If course the 'endorsed' links should be updated in cases where the articles actually improve. The profile of such 'endorsement' pages in user space would be dependent on the profile of the endorsing user (something like a trust network): trusted users' endorsements would be linked to and looked up by other editors, while endorsements by known belligerent trolls would just languish in userspace without doing any harm. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;'''</small>)]] 08:37, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
::Sounds like a good idea but I'm not sure if it would be possible to implement it. I think the idea makes more sense than what we have today, when dozens editors add [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ABattle_of_Molodi&diff=73189214&oldid=47390997 this] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AAntiochus_III_the_Great&diff=74898081&oldid=35890162 this] to thousands articles and then edit war because of the article's assessment. This is another sign that the project gets crazier day by day. There are more editors who buzz around than those who actually write stuff. I try to avoid my 3,000-entry watchlist as much as possible these days, so as not to clash with trolls. Neither can I start articles, knowing that the Ghirlaphobe behind my back stealthily posts new slurs on the arbitration page and I'm not allowed to defend myself. Editing is not much fun under such circumstances. I will try to edit sister projects these days and return to full-time activity when the case is closed. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 08:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 
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: Thank you, my friend, but I still spend most of my time in Russian Wikipedia. My contributions in English are limited to fixing some pesky errors, and I would start an occasional sub-stub every once in a while. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 22:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== DYK for Luigi Pernier ==
== You seem like a reasonable person . . . ==
 
. . . and as they say, "if you want something done, ask a busy person." Would you please take a moment and take a look at the [[Lion]] article and see if what is going on there is as it should be? I will not sign, so as to not seem to want to sway the discussion. 23:58, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Fire of Moscow (1547) ==
 
Am I allowed to put http://www.sgu.ru/rus_hist/img/x1-VMosk.jpg.jpg on the [[Fire of Moscow (1547)]] page? The author died 350+ years ago and this image doesn't appear to be copyrighted. Can you please double check on that for me. --[[User:Ineffable3000|Ineffable3000]] 11:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==Tsarskoye Selo/Pushkin==
Hi, Ghirla! I would appreciate your comment regarding the recent move resulting in [[Tsarskoe Selo / Pushkin (town)|this]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo / Pushkin|this]]. While it's obvious these new titles are a no-go, perhaps it's possible to re-organize and re-shuffle some sections to avoid confusion in future. Thanks.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 12:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Well, I used to think that the [[Pushkin (town)]]/[[Tsarskoye Selo]] separation was already sufficiently cross-referenced, but apparently I was wrong. My suggestion would be to further improve the cross-reference. Perhaps if we put a dablink at the top of [[Tsarskoye Selo]] directing the readers to [[Pushkin (town)]] "for the article on the modern town", and then place a (very brief) History section in [[Pushkin (town)]] with the "<nowiki>{{Main|...}}</nowiki> link leading to [[Tsarskoye Selo]], that would make things more obvious. What would you say to that?&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 14:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== Vladimir on the Klyazma ==
 
While I can readily believe that Vladimir patriots may have spouted all sorts of nonsense about the city's founding, I respectfully suggest that you look at the reference I inserted before you assume that you yourself know everything about the founding. To put it simply, Karamzin said that it was Monomakh and almost everyone has thought so ever since. Karamzin was a fine historian (better than many scholars realize), but we all make mistakes and the evidence for Monomakh's founding is really quite weak. For details (and they are many and complex) see my reference. Your own entry contains no references (even to the Vladimir patriots, who deserve to be cited no matter how silly they are, or else not mentioned at all) and is certainly not verifiable in any sense. -- Eesl
 
== [[Yakov Polonsky]] ==
 
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As always, many thanks Ghirla -- [[User:Samir_(The_Scope)|'''Samir''' <small>धर्म</small>]] 17:59, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
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==Order Leadershipof Glory==
Hi there, Andrei! Thanx for fixing the picture of the Order of Glory on my user page! Some dude erased a while back claiming it to be a copyvio or something like that :). How are you these days? Will you ever return to serious editing in English Wikipedia? Drop me a line. [[User:KNewman|KNewman]] ([[User talk:KNewman|talk]]) 08:18, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 
== Beregovaya compressor station ==
Might I inquire as to how I've disappointed you? We haven't really interacted much, so I'm not quite sure what your concerns are. [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 15:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Hi, Ghirla. Could you help with the exact ___location of the [[Beregovaya compressor station]]? Some sources says that it is located in [[Arkhipo-Osipovka]], and most of the sources says that at [[Dzhubga]], e.g. [http://gis-ag.com/GPRSU.pdf this map] of gas pipelines. By my understanding it is located in west from Dzhubga and in east from Arkhipo-Osipovka, and definitely there is only one compressor station, not two. Do you knew any reliable source about the ___location? [[User:Beagel|Beagel]] ([[User talk:Beagel|talk]]) 07:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
:Fair enough in regards to the assessment. We don't really agree on the issue—I think the assessments and tags are extremely useful, for a variety of reasons—but their proliferation is certainly something I have been guilty of encouraging.
: The map is in error. The Beregovaya (literally, "coastal") station, launched in November 2005 as part of the [[Blue Stream]] network, is situated in the Drovyanaya Shchel' gorge near Arkhipo-Osipovka, [[Gelendzhik]] District at an elevation of 235 meters.[http://www.gazprom.ru/news/2005/11/031327_18205.shtml][http://www.mineral.ru/News/4812.html][http://www.turkey-info.ru/tour_news/index2005/11/04/859.html] Some pictures are available [http://romafffka.moifoto.ru/72072/f1469602 here]. I suspect there will be another compressor station built in Dzhubga as part of the [[South Stream]] project. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
:As far as our lack of progress on the topics you mentioned, though, I don't really see that the project is to blame. Aside from Grafik—who works primarily with WWII material—we simply don't have anyone participating with the same knowledge of Russian history that you have. If we fail to notice, as a project, that certain articles are missing, it's not because we don't ''want'' these articles, but rather because the only editors who actually know enough about the period to be able to point out the problems and gaps (which, in many cases, might be only yourself) aren't participating in the project. Is it really reasonable for someone of your talents to assume that everyone else has the same level of expertise? [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 15:41, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
::Thanks. It should be the same compressor station (probably expanded) for the South Stream. There is only one incoming pipeline, and it is not logical that the compressor station for the South Stream would be located east from the Blue Stream pipeline. [[User:Beagel|Beagel]] ([[User talk:Beagel|talk]]) 12:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 
== Easter Greetings ==
::Which is why I've studiously avoided becoming involved in the big ArbCom fight going on (despite invitations to do so). You've certainly made significant improvements in your approach to other editors in the recent past; I hope that you might find it in your heart to treat us mere mortals with a bit more patience and forebearance in the future, regardless of the outcome of the current mess. [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 16:04, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Христос воскрес! Хрыстос уваскрос! Alleluia, Christ is risen! Kristus is uppeston!--[[User:Paul Pieniezny|Paul Pieniezny]] ([[User talk:Paul Pieniezny|talk]]) 09:09, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
:::<nowiki>*bows*</nowiki> ;-) [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 16:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
: Воистину воскресе! --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:25, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
==Istomina==
Hi, Ghirla! I almost started to move [[Avdotia Istomina]] to "Yevdokiya" when I noticed that it was you who created the article originally (and you normally know what you are doing :)). Could you, please, clarify, why the title says "Avdotia" when her actual name is "{{lang|ru|Евдокия}}"? I do not immediately see it. Thanks!—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 13:48, April&nbsp;23, 2009 (UTC)
: Replied [http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%83%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%3AObersachse&diff=15400013&oldid=15399899 here] --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 12:04, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
::Not sure why, but I followed-up there as well :)—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 15:22, April&nbsp;29, 2009 (UTC)
 
==[[BattlePortrait of Krasnoia Lady known as Smeralda Bandinelli]]==
Привет, я тут случайно написала статью в англовики (со мной такое первый раз, обычно токо правлю). Сделай пожалуйста одолжение, посмотри грамматику, а то у меня с ней всегда оч. плохо было 0_0 --[[User:Shakko|Shakko]] ([[User talk:Shakko|talk]]) 15:14, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Ghirla:
 
==New Picture available for Uvs-Nuur==
I see you've been editing my Battle of Krasnoi article...you added Hess's famous painting of the battle yesterday. I have read a great deal about Napoleon's 1812 Invasion of Russia, and I'd like to collaborate with others in creating/maintaining articles on the 1812 war in Wikipedia. I'm interested in Russian sources regarding these battles, as they have been traditionally overlooked by western historians who write about the 1812 war. Contact me at my home email.
Obsolete due to mistaken image description.
Regards,
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:TKN from German wikipedia. --[[Special:Contributions/141.76.178.109|141.76.178.109]] ([[User talk:141.76.178.109|talk]]) 23:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Kenmore {{unsigned|Kenmore|16:46, 8 August 2006}}
 
==[[Tolentini]]==
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Good image of the church, Andrej. It's a pleasure to see your name at English Wikipedia.--[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] ([[User talk:Wetman|talk]]) 12:14, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Ghirlandajo:
: Thank you, my friend. I'm pleased to see your name too. Can you help me in identifying [[:File:Vignola scale 1.jpg|this image]]? --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 19:31, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
::Would it be the spiral staircase ''scala a chiocciola'' in a wing of [[Palazzo Contrari Boncompagni]], Vignola , built by conte Ercole Contrari the elder, ''allegedly'' to designs by [[Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola]]?
::: I was tempted to use it for illustrating the Vignola article, but, since the attribution to him is by no means certain, should we let it rest on commons in relative obsurity? --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 08:59, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 
==Your inputs to the Shamordino Convent and other articles==
I was trying to edit and improve my "Battle of Krasnoi" today and you left a "no weasling" message for me, in addition to undoing my edits. Perhaps you didn't realize it was me working on my own article? Please advise.
Hey Andrei,
I've noticed you've been editing some of the Wikipedia articles I earlier uploaded images to. Many of the images have been deleted for no apparent reason. I will upload them again. If you don't like some images you can always move them to a gallery.
 
Please, move Shamordino Monastery to Shamordino Convent (I tried but couldn't do this). This is a community of nuns.
Kenmore{{unsigned|Kenmore|14:22, 12 September 2006}}
[[User:Denghu|Denghu]] ([[User talk:Denghu|talk]])
: Only a sysop can move this article. You'd better upload your pictures to [[Wikimedia Commons]], so that any wikipedia could use them when needed. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 08:53, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
:: OK. Could you please contact a sysop on that? (I actually don't know who that is :-)) [[User:Denghu|Denghu]] ([[User talk:Denghu|talk]])
 
==Hey there!==
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Nice to see you, Ghirla! [[User:Bishonen|Bishonen]] | [[User talk:Bishonen|talk]] 07:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC).
To: Ghirlandajo and others
: Thank you, Bish. It's great to know that you are still around! --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 08:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Re: Battle of Krasnoi edits of 9/12/06
 
== DYK for The Death of Procris ==
It is very difficult -- in fact even confusing -- to attempt to summarize the Battle of Krasnoi "succinctly" in terms of who won or lost. This is because it was a succession of individual skirmishes more than a single, all-encompassing battle with a single, discernible, easy to describe result.
 
Right now, the summary box for the article reads as if Napoleon in person was defeated at Krasnoi. Such was not the case...not at all. The Russian victory was over the individual corps of Eugene, Davout, and Ney. Napoleon himself remained at some distance from Eugene, Davout and Ney as they were being mauled by the Russians.
 
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Further -- to simply define Krasnoi as nothing more than the Russian victories over Eugene, Davout, and Ney -- is also to skirt the truth, because on the fourth day of action (Nov. 17th) Napoleon did indeed lead his guardsmen in a general attack on Kutusov, the result being that Napoleon accomplished his goal of fighting the Russians off temporarily so that he could extract as much of his army from Krasnoi as possible. This temporary rear-guard activity of Napoleon's was an important part of the events of Nov. 14 - 18th.
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== Philippa of Hainault ==
Let me explain some more.
Hello Ghirlando. As regards, [[Philippa of Hainault]], I believe that Kuthen of the Kumens's wife was of the Galitzine family. [[Halych|Halicz]] is just another version of her name as is [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicie]]. Her first name is a mystery.--[[User:Jeanne boleyn|Jeanne Boleyn]] ([[User talk:Jeanne boleyn|talk]]) 17:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
: There's some mistake on the part of amateur researchers cited in the article. There is no record of Kotyan's wife, but a medieval Russian chronicle names several of his sons-in-law, including [[Mstislav Mstislavich]], Prince of [[Halych]]/[[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] (in connection with the [[Battle of Kalka]] in which they both took part). In other words, it's Kotyan's daughter rather than wife who may be described as "N of Galicia". --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
::I believe you may be right, however his wife was most likely of the [[Halych]] family as well. Until that can be proved, I'll remove the reference to Kuthen's wife from the Philippa of Hainault article.--[[User:Jeanne boleyn|Jeanne Boleyn]] ([[User talk:Jeanne boleyn|talk]]) 05:53, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
::Mission accomplished. It now reads that Elizabeth was the daughter of Kuthen only, no mention of her mother. Thank you for drawing my attention to this error (which was made by me). Hopefully we'll discover who mothered Kuthen's children.--[[User:Jeanne boleyn|Jeanne Boleyn]] ([[User talk:Jeanne boleyn|talk]]) 06:00, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
::: Fine. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 06:05, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 
== DYK for Borki train disaster ==
Many Western historians -- generally Francophiles or worshippers of Napoleon -- describe Krasnoi as a French victory over Kutusov, focusing only on the events of Nov. 17th.
 
The Russian historian Tarle, in fact, in his account of Krasnoi, dwells on the actions of Nov. 17th to the detriment of the rest of the battle (Nov. 14th - 18th). The great Napoleonic historian David Chandler ("The Campaigns of Napoleon") ignores all the action at Krasnoi except that of Nov. 17th (Napoleon's brief counterattack), and calls Krasnoi a French success.
 
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All of these pro-French views, in my opinion, are misleading and erroneous because they totally ignore the disastrous defeats suffered by Eugene, Davout and Ney on the Nov. 15th, 16th, and 18th.
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==Heritage Registers==
On the other hand, certain Russian accounts of Krasnoi I am familiar with summarize it as just Miloradovich's rough handling of Eugene, Davout and Ney...without paying Napoleon enough credit for his counterattack on Nov. 17th.
 
Please take a look at my inquiry at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Russia#Lost_in_translation_..._Heritage_registers]] - I'm kinda stuck with reproducing ''kanzelyarit'' in English. P.S. Thanks for the dyk nom. [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 07:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
My aim is to explain Krasnoi in a way that takes into account all of the action, from Nov. 14th through Nov. 18th, and which emphasizes that the Russians very much got the better of the fighting even though Napoleon did save part of his army by counterattacking successfully on Nov. 17th.
 
== Puzzled ==
Perhaps it would be best to summarize the "result" as follows: "Russian victory over the corps of Eugene, Davout, and Ney"...and to leave it at that? That way the "result" does not convey that fallacy that Napoleon personally was defeated.
 
I'm puzzled by this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=291128530&oldid=291128370]. Are you under the impression that I'm active on IRC? [[User:William M. Connolley|William M. Connolley]] ([[User talk:William M. Connolley|talk]]) 11:10, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
The best historians of the war, in my opinion, tend to call Krasnoi a "partial Russian victory".
: I'm under impression that your integrity as a sysop has been steadily eroding for about three years. Why you behave the way you do is not for me to say. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
:: I disagree with your first assertion, of course. But you have not answered my question. You appear to be associating me with IRC, and in this you are incorrect. If you don't care about being wrong, then say so and I won't trouble you any further. If you do care about being wrong (and I would rather hope you did) I'm interested in what you meant [[User:William M. Connolley|William M. Connolley]] ([[User talk:William M. Connolley|talk]]) 12:04, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 
:::Ghirlandajo merely mentioned this editor as an example of the atmosphere of intimidation, which appears to be demonstrated perfectly well right here. The association with IRC is a red herring.--[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] ([[User talk:Wetman|talk]]) 15:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Right now, I regard the Krasnoi article as a work in progress. I would like to upgrade it in the future with references to excellent history books, fully accurate counts of casualties, artillery pieces lost, maps, etc.
 
:::: Right on spot, Wetman. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:38, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Kenmore{{unsigned|Kenmore|18:49, 12 September 2006}}
 
::::: I'm afraid I'm no wiser about how to interpret your original statement. Whilst clearly demonstrating ill-will towards me, it is otherwise incoherent. However, it is now clear you realise I'm not active on IRC, so some progress has been made [[User:William M. Connolley|William M. Connolley]] ([[User talk:William M. Connolley|talk]]) 18:13, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
== [[Russo-Kazan Wars]] ==
 
== The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo) ==
Классно!!! :))) Предлагаю в дальнейшем развить последнюю секцию до полноценной статьи, благо что материала много.. + добавить последнюю главу про походы против партизан 1552-1558 годов! --[[User:Untifler|Wiki]] 14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
зы. А не более правильно было бы назвать статью Muscovite-Kazan Wars? Ведь начались они до окончательного объединения Руси?
 
[[Template:Michelangelo]] appears at the bottom of [[The Torment of Saint Anthony (Michelangelo)]]. It has a link to [[List of works by Michelangelo]] at the bottom of it. I've updated the list to include this painting. [[User:davidwr|davidwr]]/<small><small>([[User_talk:davidwr|talk]])/([[Special:Contributions/Davidwr|contribs]])/([[Special:Emailuser/davidwr|e-mail]])</small></small> 15:47, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
== Ekaterina Geltser ==
: Nice --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 16:12, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 
== Back to heritage registers ==
Thanls for the feedback. If you would like to get rid of the photos that is fine, but considering my VAST collection of antique ballet photos from Imperial/Early Soviet Russia that none but me and a few others might see, I thought, after seeing the article, that Id rather share them than have them sitting in my albums and on my PC....... :) I suppose my need to share the photos got the better of my judgement regarding the short article - it is a bit much for such a short article, but the photos are so great! [[User:Mrlopez2681|Mrlopez2681]] 15:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 
What, in your opinion, should appear in [[Russian register of cultural register]]? I put together [[User:NVO/RH|a draft]], please let me know if anything significant is missing. I will definitely expand/clarify on legal fubar story; what else? [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 05:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
== Re: [[:Category:Wars of Ingria]] ==
 
== DYK for Gonzaga Cameo ==
And [[:Category:Wars of Karelia]], too. *sigh* I've listed them both for deletion. [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 19:36, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== The Death of Achilles ==
 
I just sort of finished the article on [[The Death of Achilles]]. What would you pick as DYK-entry?
 
BTW, I would hate to see you leave this wiki, or reduce your activity here. Rest assured you have also many friends here. [[User:Errabee|Errabee]] 22:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== DYK ==
 
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== Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard‎ ==
 
Hi Ghirla, I thought you might be interested in this which is lifted from here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard&oldid=75703045#Comments_on_Radiant.27s_.22A_more_neutral_question.22]
 
:: Tony, I beg to differ -- with courtesy but most seriously. All you have done in your comment is convince me that if you ''were'' a b'crat, I'd have to ask you to stand for recall. [[User:John Reid|John&nbsp;]][[User talk:John Reid|Reid]] 11:05, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
::: You could fucking whistle. --[[User talk:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway]] 11:14, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
:::*And you could tone down your comments. That was uncalled for. Even if John Reid was the most abbrasive person since Jack the Ripper, such comments as the one you just made are out of line here. Please calm down. --[[User:Durin|Durin]] 12:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
:::** Absolutely not. Ridiculous threats deserve to to be treated with loud and resounding contempt. --[[User talk:Tony Sidaway|Tony Sidaway]] 13:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::*It's not often I am totally amazed by hypocrisy on such a grand scale [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Ghirlandajo]. [[User:Giano|Giano]] | [[User talk:Giano|talk]] 14:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Tony Sidaway then removed my last comment with this startling edit summary [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ABureaucrats%27_noticeboard&diff=75703882&oldid=75703261]. Seems there really is one law for some, and another for him. No one liftes a finger to stop him. [[User:Giano|Giano]] | [[User talk:Giano|talk]] 14:52, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 
:Amazing? I think you mean "fucking amazing". HTH. -- [[User:ALoan|ALoan]] [[User talk:ALoan|(Talk)]] 15:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 
::And I see we are [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=75721379&oldid=75716913 not to tolerate anti-social behaviour either]... -- [[User:ALoan|ALoan]] [[User talk:ALoan|(Talk)]] 16:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Giano, I have seen this striking exchange but, as you know, I am intimidated from posting my comments on Bcrats' board and I don't want to deal with Mr. Sidaway any more. May be others have been intimidated too. If I perpetrated anything like this, I would have been blocked by multiple admins simultaneously. Let their conscience be the judge. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 15:09, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 
 
==[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kven]]==
Hello,
 
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kven]]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kven/Evidence]]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Kven/Workshop]].
 
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --[[User:FloNight|FloNight]] 23:36, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== Response ==
 
To keep it all in one spot, we can communicate on my talk page or via email if you prefer...I have left a reponse to that affect on my talk page.--[[User:MONGO|MONGO]] 07:33, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== Adjectives in Extreme North (Russia) ==
==Query==
Hi. I noticed you removed [[Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues]] from [[:Category:Russian diplomats]]. He was Russia's ambassador at some point, so wouldn't you say the label qualifies? [[User:Dahn|Dahn]] 10:23, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
:I see. That is a good point. [[User:Dahn|Dahn]] 10:30, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Hi Ghirlandajo, I'm not overly concerned about this, but I saw your change to [[Extreme North (Russia)]], and was wondering if the adjectives are actually particularly useful; they're not exactly quantifiable. Would it not be more useful (and Encyclopedic) to simply detail the aspects which you're attempting to describe via adjectives?
==[[Feodor II of Russia]]==
And apologies if this mixes up the formatting you have on this page - I'll try to correct it if that happens. [[User:Random name|Random name]] ([[User talk:Random name|talk]]) 16:21, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I hope we can agree that "most foully" is intrinsically a POV statement. Could you source that he died from having his testicles crushed? Thanks, [[User:Storkk|Storkk]] 15:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== DidDYK youfor knowGorgoneion ==
 
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==Review/copyedit for [[Vincenzo Brenna]]==
 
Andrey, please take a look - you might have better sources on the subject. Most of the article is based on Lanceray's book from 1930s; I don't have specific modern sources but Shvidkovsky provides completely different dates (and frequently different attributions, but it was expected). Regards, [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 17:06, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
==Ancient European History==
would appreicate a dialogue. my aquaintance Billy Meier has given us some information about the ancient Giants not heretofore given. i just dont want to post it because it is only from one source. but would like to share it. where can i post it to where only you will get it? wiki editor mlhooten mlhootenATgmail.com
 
== DYK for House of Lorraine ==
== hello ==
 
hi. in my country (israel) there are great concerns that russia is no more democracy but authoritarian regime. you are live in russia, so do you think it is correct? and you think putin is effective president?
[[User:Superzohar|Superzohar]] 18:37, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 
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== You have been nominated for membership of the Established Editors Association ==
== [[WP:NC(GN)]] ==
 
The Established editors association will be a kind of union of who have made substantial and enduring contributions to the encyclopedia for a period of time (say, two years or more). The proposed articles of association are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peter_Damian/Established_Editors here] - suggestions welcome.
I apologize for spamming your talk page, but since you had contributed in the past to the [[WP:NC(GN)]] proposal, which is currently ready for a wider consultation, I thought you might want to give it another look now and, hopefully, suggest some final improvements. Thanks. --[[User:Lysy|Lysy]]<sup>[[User talk:Lysy|talk]]</sup> 22:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 
If you wish to be elected, please notify me [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Peter_Damian/Established_Editors#Other_nominations here]. If you know of someone else who may be eligible, please nominate them [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Peter_Damian/Established_Editors#Other_nominations here]
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Please put all discussion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Peter_Damian/Established_Editors#Discussion here].[[User:Peter Damian|Peter Damian]] ([[User talk:Peter Damian|talk]]) 10:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
== Hosios Loukas ==
 
==GA Reassessment of [[Erast Fandorin]]==
Hi, thanks a lot for expanding my [[Hosios Loukas]] stub. Looks much more competent now! Darn it, I didn't even find the right English term for that cross-in-square thing. :-) By the way, maybe you can satisfy my curiosity. That English language external link I had described the architectural pattern as "tetrastyle", but our [[Tetrastyle]] article describes something rather different, a type of classical portico. Do you happen to know how that term is used? I mean, it would sort of make sense as a term for a type of dome, I guess. [[User:Future Perfect at Sunrise|Fut.Perf.]] [[User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise|☼]] 14:54, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
I am conducting a reassessment as part of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force/Sweeps|GA sweeps]] process. I have found come concerns which need addressing if this article is to keep its GA status, which may be found at [[Talk:Erast Fandorin/GA1]]. Thanks. [[User:Jezhotwells|Jezhotwells]] ([[User talk:Jezhotwells|talk]]) 19:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 
== Askold and Dir ==
 
Fringe theory? What are talking about? The whole Russian history is the fringe theory. Why are parimary chronicles lay the base of Russian history? Book of Veles is being denied by the Russian church. Of course, because that church primary mission to destroy our history, the Slavic history. The primary chronicles were written by that church to come up with the new history. Why is that there are no prior historical records exist until those chronicles? Are we to believe that our ancestors were that stupid that they left us no historical records? Or, maybe, were they eliminated? I believe so. [[Book of Veles]] exists and it is the only surviving record of our ancient history. Why do we want to deny it? What would be the reason to come up with what the church believes to be not true? Do not forget what was happening at the times when the [[Kyivan Rus|Rus]] was converted into Christianity. All Slavic religion was eradicated. Why? Because they did not know how to believe? :) What a crack! No wonder that the church now wants to get rid of [[Book of Veles]]. [[User:Aleksandr Grigoryev|Aleksandr Grigoryev]] ([[User talk:Aleksandr Grigoryev|talk]]) 19:26, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
==[[Talk:Erika Steinbach]==
You and I have only crossed paths a few times on Wikipedia, but I feel we would share the same perspective on the vote taking place at [[talk:Erika Steinbach]]. We need your vote, the Polish POV pushers have tried to revers the Danzig/Gdansk ruling in regards to another German/Polish city, as doing so will defame a German politician (Erika Steinbach). Please round up more like minded people and have them vote, we need all the help we cna get, like on the Jogaila vote a while ago.
 
== GA reassessment of [[Canaletto]] ==
--[[User:Jadger|Jadger]] 02:43, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 
I have conducted a review of this article which has a large number of issues which need attention. I have delisted it. The reassessment is at [[Talk:Canaletto/GA1]]. Thanks. [[User:Jezhotwells|Jezhotwells]] ([[User talk:Jezhotwells|talk]]) 13:48, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
== [[Andrey Kozlov]] ==
 
== Otto von Habsburg's Patrilineal Descent ==
moved again... - <b>[[User:Crzrussian|CrazyRussian]]</b><small> [[User_talk:Crzrussian|talk]]/[[Special:Emailuser/Crzrussian|email]]</small> 03:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Why do you state that [[Otto von Habsburg]]'s patrilineal descent is faked? It was presented by Portuguese Genealogists on ''Raízes & Memórias'' publication, Nr. 21 - December 2005, pgs. 11 to 20. Are you saying Portuguese Genealogists and official publications in Portugal aren't credible? [[User:Dgarq|Dgarq]] ([[User talk:Dgarq|talk]]) 17:55, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
== DYK ==
:Actually, the two first names are not the right ones according to the forementioned publication. I'll proceed and correct them. [[User:Dgarq|Dgarq]] ([[User talk:Dgarq|talk]]) 15:49, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 
== Permission for use an image ==
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Hello, I'm Bagratun from the Spanish wikipedia. I ask you to allow me to use the image File:Hutyn.jpg to illustrate the article in Spanish. I think is a really good photograph. Thank's for your response either is positive or negative.
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: I'd like to, but the image is not mine. It comes from the website listed on the page. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 06:59, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
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== BarnstarFantastic work ==
 
BigWow, <big>thanks</big>!very I'mnice alwayswork gladon whenall peoplethe appreciatearticles myyouve contributionshelped :)create/expand! ''[[User:TodorBozhinovOmegastar|Todor]][[User_talk:TodorBozhinov|→Omegastar]] ([[User talk:TodorBozhinovOmegastar|Bozhinovtalk]]'') 1309:3713, 2215 September 20062009 (UTC)
 
== DYKYou were discussed ==
 
Here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:AC/N#Eastern_European_mailing_list] I just came to let you know something is going on about your not-loved arbcom:)) Regards, [[User:FeelSunny|FeelSunny]] ([[User talk:FeelSunny|talk]]) 23:15, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
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== Incredible!Notification ==
Hi Ghirlandajo. I'm posting to let you know that your name has been mentioned on a list of potential candidates for adminship on the talk page for RfA's [[Wikipedia_talk:RFA|here]]. If you are interested in running, or if you would like to make any comments, feel free to join the discussion. <tt>[[User:Decltype|decltype]]</tt> ([[User talk:Decltype|talk]]) 20:11, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 
==Biographies==
I have only been USING Wikipedia for may be a year, and I always wondered who authored all those "Russia-themed" "Did you know?" articles.
Today I finally took the time to find out, and I am impressed to no end with Ghirla! Keep up the good work, please, and don't quit! You are person of a rare talent and much dedication, and it would be a shame if "phobes" discouraged you.
 
Привет. Could you please review/fix/advise on [[Vasili Bazhenov]], [[Alexander Kokorinov]] (there were your creations), [[Pietro Gonzaga]], [[Jean-François Thomas de Thomon]], [[Mikhail Matyushin]], perhaps [[Maly Theatre (Moscow)]] too. [[User:NVO|NVO]] ([[User talk:NVO|talk]]) 20:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
cheers,
Zoirusha
 
== ReplyOndine ==
 
Important! - Round up what few ballet enthusiasts you know on Wikipedia and get them to vote on the proposed merging of the Ondine articles that would see the article about Frederick Ashton's production of the actual ballet, being merged into one about the music.
Lol, what do you mean? &mdash;<span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype">[[User:Khoikhoi|Khoi]][[User talk:Khoikhoi|khoi]]</span> 03:13, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 
See here: - [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Classical_music#Straw_Poll]]
==[[Russian Enlightenment]]==
I made my additions that need your polishing. ([[User:Meladina|meladina]] 09:46, 23 September 2006 (UTC))
 
And please vote to oppose this change, as this music would not have been written had it not been for Ashton's ballet!!!
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Thank You
==[[Polar exploration]]==
Thanks for your great additions to this article. I have since added considerably more material about the Renaissance period, and think, perhaps, that your additions might be moved to that section, since it is more in keeping with the timeline. Before I do that, however, I wanted your opinion on moving it. [[User:Danny|Danny]] 11:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 
[[User:Crazy-dancing|Crazy-dancing]] ([[User talk:Crazy-dancing|talk]]) 20:13, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
==[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano]]==
Hello,
 
== Flore et Zéphire ==
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano]]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Evidence]]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Giano/Workshop]].
 
{{talkback|Robertgreer}}
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, MacGyverMagic - [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm]]|[[User talk:MacGyverMagic|<sup>(talk)</sup>]] 22:14, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==Galitzine==
==Egyptian Revival==
Shouldn't [[Galitzine|this]] at least be in plural? The article, after all, is about a family/house, not about a standalone last name?—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 14:24, November&nbsp;24, 2009 (UTC)
I've found a pretty good source for quite a bit of information on the subject - I've included some on the talk page. Perhaps you'd respond? Thanks --[[User:Mcginnly|Mcginnly]] | [[User talk:Mcginnly|Natter]] 01:18, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
: Cf [[Czartoryski]], [[Sapieha]], [[Rohan (family)]], etc. I'd leave the title as it is. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:05, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
::I'd say those are bad choices, too, but whatever. Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 15:50, November&nbsp;24, 2009 (UTC)
 
== FPC nomination ==
Hi Ghirlandajo. I've nominated [[:File:Whitehousenight.jpg]], an image uploaded by you, for featured picture status. Feel free to comment on the nomination at [[Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/White House at Night]]. --[[User:KFP|KFP]] <small>([[User talk:KFP|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/KFP|contribs]])</small> 22:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 
== The 50 DYK Nomination Medal ==
==UberCryxic's Plan to unilaterally edit the Battle of Krasnoi article==
 
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I respectfully request that you not allow anyone to edit or revise the Battle of Krasnoi article without consulting with me first. I wish to discuss this battle in detail with UberCryxic first. UberCryxic is very deeply in error about Krasnoi, and after I discuss my sources with him, I'm sure he'll agree with my position.
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My proposal to UberCryxic is that he and I set-up a notebook listing exactly what we think happened on each of the days of the battle, from Nov. 14th to Nov. 17. He can share his sources with me, and I'll share my sources with him. Everything will be addressed and footnoted.
 
Thanks,
Kenmore
9/25/06
--[[User:kenmore|kenmore]]
 
==Agatha of [Somewhere]==
Moving the [[Agatha of Bulgaria]]article to [[Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile]] might be a reasonable solution. Let me know what you think or leave a note at the talk page. I was tempted to AFD it, but perhaps it can be saved. [[User:Angusmclellan|Angus McLellan]] [[User talk:Angusmclellan|(Talk)]] 16:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 
:A great rewrite. The Rurukid explanation does make better onomastic sense. Thanks very much ! [[User:Angusmclellan|Angus McLellan]] [[User talk:Angusmclellan|(Talk)]] 18:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==DYK==
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|On [[25 September]], [[2006]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Charax, Crimea]]''''', which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know?" talk page]].
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== Stalinist voluntarism ==
==Kenmore==
Hey, I apologize if my behavior towards him seemed incongruous in any way. As I said in the talk page, I did not mean to incite any ill feelings. That aside, I have a question for you. Do you know what my first experience as a registered user in Wikipedia was? It was a quasi-fight with you over Borodino in January. Do you remember me calling you an "obnoxious teenager" or questioning your intelligence? Do you remember me doing [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Krasnoi&diff=prev&oldid=77855941 THIS]? Just because someone is new to Wikipedia does not mean they are excused from having basic standards of personal conduct. I hope you keep this in mind the next time you decide to dish out criticism in this matter.[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 15:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
:So do I. I'm glad to see your article featured on Main Page today and I'm proud of having been [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AUberCryxic&diff=35419236&oldid=35412457 the first to welcome you] to Wikipedia! --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 16:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 
In the article on the [[Rybinsk Reservoir]] there is a line which appears to date from an edit you made in 2005: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rybinsk_Reservoir&diff=prev&oldid=20531538 As the time goes by, however, it has been increasingly viewed as a typical sample of Stalinist voluntarism]. Shortly after you linked Stalinist to [[Joseph Stalin]], but neither on that page nor on [[Stalinism]] can I find references to "voluntarism". [[Voluntarism]] itself is a disambiguation page. The net result is that I'm not sure what the reservoir is supposed to be an example of. Can you clarify? [[Special:Contributions/79.144.205.168|79.144.205.168]] ([[User talk:79.144.205.168|talk]]) 18:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
:I want to make something clear, and I'm sure you've felt this before too. Our behavior on Wikipedia is different than what it would be if we were having a personal conversation. If the latter was happening, I would not say to anyone, "This source says that Napoleon won the battle and that source says why." Rather I would simply proceed to explain events as best as I can. On Wikipedia, however, everything we say has to be backed up by reputable sources. Most reputable sources I have take a different perspective on many of the 1812 battles described here on Wikipedia (Andrew Uffindell regards Maloyaroslavets as a French victory, for example), which I presume were mostly written by you. There could be source selection bias; that is, maybe the sources that I have say this and the sources that you have say that (and same with Kenmore's sources). The only thing I can reasonably say is that most Western authors regard the French as the victors in the majority of those battles. I can also reasonably claim that 1812 has been mythologized in Russian history to the point where the truth has been obscured. The notion among some that the Russians came out well after Borodino is traceable to Kutuzov's letter to Alexander, in which he speaks of a "great victory" and implies the French will not reach Moscow. Silly statements and claims like these were perpetuated by a Russian nobility who could claim to have the moral high ground after chasing the French out. Tolstoy put the icing on the cake, and there you have it. Modern scholarship has corrected many of those errors (thankfully) and has put many issues regarding the campaign into context (like the fact that more than half of Napoleon's main strike force had already died in the summer largely because of malnutrition, disease, and starvation). The Russian army played an important role in driving out the enemy, but not a decisive one. The elements finished the French on their own even before the onset of winter, before Krasnoi and Maloyaroslavets.[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 17:02, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[Talk: Hryhorii Skovoroda]] ==
Yes you were the first, after accusing me of having an agenda! Haha...just kidding. For what it's worth, I consider you the closest thing to indispensable when it comes to Wikipedia, even though you have characteristics and tendencies that I find objectionable. Your contributions to this project are like a whole encyclopedia on their own.[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 17:05, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Could you please look at this? It`s incredible. --[[User:Kuiavian|Kuiavian]] ([[User talk:Kuiavian|talk]]) 08:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
'''Modern Scholarship Regarding 1812 Tilts Toward The Russian View'''
 
:[[Talk:Hryhorii Skovoroda]]. Can I expect any support from your side? --[[User:Antoni Chojnacki|Antoni Chojnacki]] ([[User talk:Antoni Chojnacki|talk]]) 22:51, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
If anything, modern scholarship on Napoleon's Russian invasion tends more and more to debunk the myth of Napoleon falling to nature and not to the Russians. More and more Western historians these days are crediting the Russians with having waged a successful war of attrition against the French, harnessing geography, economic realities and nature to wear down an opponent that would otherwise have been invincible. It was Russian stamina, obstinacy in combat, generalship and martial prowess that made put Napoleon in a position where nature did the rest of the work.
 
==Title change for [[St.George Bank]]==
Here's an example of the latest scholarship on 1812...written by a world reknown LSE professor:
Hi. I have placed a [[Talk:St. George Bank#Space or no space in name|query]] at [[St. George Bank]] as to why you moved it from [[St.George Bank]]. [[User:Nurg|Nurg]] ([[User talk:Nurg|talk]]) 02:16, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 
== One for you ==
Lieven, D. C. B. "Russia and the Defeat of Napoleon (1812-14)"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Winter_Palace#Architectural_question] this is more your department than mine. <small><span style="border:1px solid blue;padding:1px;">[[User:GiacomoReturned|<span style="color:White;background:Blue;font-family:sans-serif;">'''&nbsp;Giano&nbsp;'''</span>]]</span></small> 18:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History - Volume 7, Number 2, Spring 2006, pp. 283-308
Slavica Publishers
 
== Aleksey vs. Alexei (Fyodorov) ==
''Although a vast and often excellent literature exists on the Napoleonic Wars, there remain important gaps and misconceptions in our understanding both of the wars themselves and of the context in which they were fought. Probably the most significant of these gaps and misconceptions concern Russia's role in the international relations (including, of course, the wars) of the Napoleonic era, which is very imperfectly understood both in Russia and in "the West."1 Some reasons for misunderstanding are specific to Russian or Western historians: in other respects, however, Russian and Western scholarship on the era shares similar weaknesses. In this article I look first at Western and then at Russian writing on Russia's role in Napoleon's downfall. I seek to explain why Russia's part in the collapse of Napoleon's empire has been misunderstood and underestimated both in Russia and the "West." I also point to the ways in which this has distorted a realistic and balanced understanding of the defeat of Napoleon both in Russia and abroad.''
 
Greetings, [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]! I noted in past edits of the [[Aleksey Fyodorov]] page you favor this as the more accepted spelling of his surname, yet the page text uses "Ale'''x'''e'''i'''" throughout. Wouldn't consistency be appropriate? (I only know the editing rule regarding [[American English|AE]] vs. [[British English|BE]] in the English-language WP, that a page remains as initially written in this regard.) I need to know this for the list of key words I maintain for [[Ghetto Fighters' House|our archives]]. What do you advise? ''-- Cheers, [[User:Deborahjay|Deborahjay]] ([[User talk:Deborahjay|talk]]) 06:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)''
''Given the manner in which the wars of this era were mobilized by nationalist mythmakers, it is perhaps not surprising that the enormous Russian contribution to the destruction of Napoleon's empire should have been played down by British, French, and German historians. A more [End Page 283] interesting problem is why Russian historians have also contributed to this underestimation of their own country's efforts. ''
: I think ''Alexei'' should be changed to ''Aleksey'' wherever possible. Best regards. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 06:23, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
::Would you say this is a rule or guideline particularly in transliterating from the Ukrainian, or in general from all Cyrillic-alphabet languages? (N.B. none of which I've studied; I'm just at the stage of mastering the letters.) '' -- [[User:Deborahjay|Deborahjay]] ([[User talk:Deborahjay|talk]]) 06:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)''
::: This applies to Russian names. The Ukrainian counterpart to "Aleksey" is "[http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+oleksiy Oleksiy]". --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 06:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 
== You are now a Reviewer ==
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==Feedback for essay==
Hi, there. I have made some large changes to the essay now known as [[Wikipedia:Administrators are not only here to build the encyclopedia]] (I renamed it as the original title deviated too much from my original point). I would like some feedback on whether you find it more acceptable now. Thanks. <font color="DarkGreen">[[User:Cowman109|Cowman109]]</font><sup>[[User talk:Cowman109|Talk]]</sup> 18:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 
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==Question==
Ghirlandajo, I have serious question to you about architecture. Do you classify this building as pure Mannerism style building: [http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tata2kg5.jpg original photo], [http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lasaql4.jpg drawing 1], [http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ascdk3.jpg drawing 2] ? Regards from "well known nationalist" [[User:M.K|M.K.]]
::*In the absence of my colleague and friend Ghirlandajo, I would advise you to read [[Nymphenburg Palace]] (who names these pages?) as in my opinion it is more [[Baroque]] than mannerist, especially considering its earlier layout. However, I suggest you wait for Ghirlandajo to appear because he is the expert, and a second opinion is always essential. [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 20:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes Baroque could be an answer, but I am trying to identify different styles in this building.[[User:M.K|M.K.]] 20:18, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 
If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. <!-- Template:Reviewer-notice --> [[User:Courcelles|Courcelles]] ([[User talk:Courcelles|talk]]) 01:36, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
*Well to my eyes it is very north European 18th century architecture take a look at [[Palazzo del Te]] which is pure mannerism where ornament is used sparingly to achieve proportion and harmony. With mannerism the house must stand out in its landscape, but the severity of its design must also (IMO) be a complement to it. Mannerism, was a reaction to the ornate earlier High Renaissance designs of a few years earlier. On your building one could argue that the [[quoin]]ing is mannerist inspired, but it has been widely used earlier too, but this had also become a common form of architectural decoration by the early 18th century, The 2nd floor windows have more decorated architraves than the first which would be unusual in southern Europe, in spite of this however the first floor windows still intimate a [[piano nobile]] by their size and the gravity of their architraves - perhaps it was a civic building where important and grave business was carried out on this floor - so while there are mannerist influences - I still say Baroque - I wonder if [[User: Wetman|Wetman]] is watching this - he will have a view that will be valid [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 20:38, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
::For instance it was stated that this building is in Renaissance shape with Mannerism décor. Do you, Giano, concur this view too? [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 20:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
::::No, not completely that is too simple, the style of the building has evolved a long way from both Renaissance and mannerism, by a long way I mean in both evolution and distance. I would love to know the date it was completed, I guess about 1720 - 1740 - but North European is not a subject I am very familiar with, so I am happy to be corrected [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 20:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
::::: The building is in [[Lithuania]], built around 17th century, was damage by wars and was renovated in 60s. [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 21:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==Merge of the [[Great Northern Expedition]] and the [[Second Kamchatka Expedition]]==
The townhouse exhibits Italianate detailing which was common in Northern Europe owing to the work of both [[Tessin Palace|Tessins]], but the earlier images reveal a Baroque layout which makes me recall the haunting stills of Nymphenburg from ''[[Last Year at Marienbad|L'année dernière à Marienbad]]'', a landmark film which illustrates the adoption of Baroque aesthetics by a modern filmmaker. If the building is in Vilnius (as the style of the nearby church makes me guess), it may have been an illustration of [[Jan Sobieski]]'s political and matrimonial alliance with the Bavarian [[Wittelsbach]]s. I advise Giano to take a look at [http://ua.vlasenko.net/pidhirtsi/index.html this shamefully delapidated building] in rural Ukraine. Perhaps it may become the subject of one of his future articles :) --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 21:11, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Ghirlandajo! I've proposed [[Talk:Great Northern Expedition|this merge]] and then noticed that once you had proposed the same thing. I think you might be interested in the matter, so please watch out for the possible discussion (there have been no replies yet, but may be some will appear). [[User:Greyhood|Greyhood]] ([[User talk:Greyhood|talk]]) 17:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
:so, Ghirlandajo wants to say that building has inconsistence elements influenced by modern "hand" or am I wrong? [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 21:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
::Nope. I say that, as the modern picture shows, the building looks closer to late Renaissance than Baroque, although the restless layout of main blocks on the drawings indicates the Baroque influence from Central Europe. You shouldn't expect facile Western-concocted tags like "Mannerism" or "Baroque" to be readily applicable to structures erected at the fringes of Europe. Every building is individual; attempts to classify are often misleading. Giano is correct in pointing out that there was a strong classicizing undercurrent in the 17th-century Nordic architecture (compare [[Tessin Palace|Tessin's Baroque idiom]] with the [http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soubor:Kolovratsky_palac05.jpg first Baroque palace in Prague]). Besides, such key details as window surrounds could have been changed over time. You should ask Wetman; he is the real expert in Baroque architecture. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 15:59, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
:::Aaa, this message is a bit clearer; yesterday I somehow failed to interpret it properly. Yes Giano made good points I will take them to the account too. [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 20:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==Karl Wenig's painting==
== [[Nerchinsk]] ==
Hey mate! Among many interesting pics you've uploaded, is also the picture ''Last minutes of False Dmitriy I'' by Karl Wenig (''File:Karl_wenig_1879.jpg''). Sometime ago, someone else uploaded a better (no offence!) copy of the same file (''File:Last_minutes_of_False_Dmitry.jpg'') . So, um, I was thinking about deleting 'your' picture, but it requires orphaning, i. e. deleting it from [[User:Ghirlandajo/Uploads|your uploads gallery]]. I didn't want to be rude and just mess with it, but if you have nothing against, could you please erase this pic from your gallery, so it can be deleted? - [[User:ArCgon|ArCgon]] ([[User talk:ArCgon|talk]]) 17:55, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
: I suppose the vanity page should be deleted. It's of no use anymore. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 14:48, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
 
==Dashkov==
I have invited you to a discussion on [[Talk:Nerchinsk]]. Please explain how multiple-language headings do not comform to [[WP:MOS]] --[[User:Niohe|Niohe]] 21:18, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thanks for moving [[Pavel Dashkov]], i was just filling the red link from frs, those english are sloppy with the foreign nobility. but what about [[Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg]] where someone undid my move the same way? maybe it should be '''Countess [[Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg]]''' [[User:Pohick2|Pohick2]] ([[User talk:Pohick2|talk]]) 17:53, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
: Perhaps [[Marianne Lindberg]]? Anyway, the word "countess" is redundant in the title. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 05:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 
== Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 13#Category:New York City Ballet repertory by season ==
:He's put them back. I do not agree of course. I think he has a point in that because of those rwo treaties, the Manchu name should be mentioned in the article. But so should the Latin one, that means the two versions. The way to do this, I think, is a chapter with alternative names, like [[User:Ezhiki|Ezhiki]] did at [[Kyakhta]]. By the way, is there any reason to doubt the veracity of [http://www.fortification.ru/library/kradin/nerchinsk.html fortification.ru]? It gives a slightly different account of 1653-1658 in the area from waht we have in the article. Not that we would need to change much in the text of the article.--[[User:Pan Gerwazy|Pan Gerwazy]] 22:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 
May I call your attention to a proposal at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_July_13#Category:New_York_City_Ballet_repertory_by_season Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 13] to delete [[:Category:New York City Ballet repertory by season]]? — [[User:Robertgreer|Robert Greer]] ([[User talk:Robertgreer|talk]]) 22:26, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
==Your request==
Yes I have taken the matter there now. I am personally fine with the article either way, but I just think the new name is more appropriate and accurate.[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 18:20, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 
==DYK for Gomel Palace==
:It's been almost a week and we were the only ones that commented. Is it fine if I change the name of the article now? Or do you want to do it?[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 18:36, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
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==Hi!==
:Hey can you change it? I'm having some difficulties. When I try to move it to "French invasion of Russia" it says an article with that name already exists (and some other stuff). Know what could be wrong?[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 04:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ghirla, great to see you! [[User:Bishonen|Bishonen]] | [[User talk:Bishonen|talk]] 20:38, 16 July 2010 (UTC).
: Thank you, dear Bish! I'm also glad to see you again. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 22:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
: Nice to see you here. Anyway, have you ever heard of [[Hryhorii Skovoroda|this guy]]? I am already sorry that I asked :-( -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 09:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 
==DYK for Smolensky Cemetery==
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==List of Baroque residences==
"please learn to use the template correctly"
:Do I dare ask?
::I do.
:::Dear Andrey, would you please explain to me your cryptic comment in more detail? Thank you kindly. - <b>[[User:Crzrussian|CrazyRussian]]</b><small> [[User_talk:Crzrussian|talk]]/[[Special:Emailuser/Crzrussian|email]]</small> 02:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 
Great work on the [[List of Baroque residences]] - it's looking great. I've been trying to fix some of the redlinks in various articles for some of the Italian palaces - [[Ducal Palace of Modena]] and [[Palazzo Estense]] so far - which happen to link from articles I've been working on as part of my Italian noble families mini-project. Please let me know if there are any other redlinks you would like me to assist with. Regards, [[User:Stalwart111|Stalwart111]] ([[User talk:Stalwart111|talk]]) 07:03, 23 July 2010 (UTC).
[[:Template:Unreferenced]] says:
: Thank you. I'm thinking about [[:de:Weimarer Stadtschloss]] and [[:cs:Kostel svatého Mikuláše (Malá Strana)|Prague Cathedral of St. Nicholas]]. Is Germany beyond your scope? We also need a separate category for pleasure palaces. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:43, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
*"There is currently no consensus about where to place this template; most suggest either the bottom of the article page (in an empty 'References' section), or on the article's talk page".
*"There is currently no consensus about whether this template should be used with stubs. Certainly all articles, including stubs, should cite references, but opinions vary as to whether the stub tag is sufficient notification of the need to improve the article, or whether there is a need for more specific notification via this tag".
 
==Repin==
These are very sensitive matters and I'm tired of: a) moving the template to the bottom of the page; b) replacing it with "stub" tags. People seem to be using tags (not only this, but others too) without consulting the rules. I hope you understand what I mean. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 06:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Hey Ghirlandaj. I'm hoping to expand [[Barge Haulers on the Volga]] in the next few weeks or so, but sources in English are few and far between; I have some stored up, but would needed help from a VA native speaker to properly do service. It is has been a collaboration with Johnbod, and he suggested you, somebody I've seen about a fair amount on art pages. So I suppose this is a cap in hand request. No worries if you are preoccupied. Best. [[User:Ceoil|Ceoil]] ([[User talk:Ceoil|talk]]) 22:58, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
: That's one painting (and painter) I really hate! But I will add the page to my watchlist. If you need to translate any specific text, let me know. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 14:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
::Well thank you very much for the translations, they will add great dept and scope to the page. I will start adding, but might need to verify page numbers etc with you at some stage. Pity to hear that you are Repin-phobic but can understand that too! Best. [[User:Ceoil|Ceoil]] ([[User talk:Ceoil|talk]]) 17:36, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 
== Beger Uts==
I do, actually. There are also ''stanitsas'' which are even bigger than that (and also without articles). If you think any of those need to be created ''urgently'' and you don't have time to do it, by all means let me know&mdash;I can write a fairly decent stub (and no, it's not going to be just the dry stats, unless that's all you need). Also, what connection does this have to "novoyaz" you mentioned in the edit summary? I don't understand. Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); July&nbsp;27, 2010; 21:10 (UTC)
 
==Lake Peipus==
Why can't I retract my own nomination? This has been done before. [[User:Bravada|Bravada]], [[User talk:Bravada|talk]] - 10:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
Before I revert you there, could you please read the references [1-3] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Peipus&oldid=371571026#cite_note-2 this version] and explain your changes. No, Britannica is not an authority on hydrology. Yes, Chudsko-Pskovskoe is a possibility, but in any case, this has to be discussed at the talk page first, and again, how about refs [1-3]? [[User:Materialscientist|Materialscientist]] ([[User talk:Materialscientist|talk]]) 06:01, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
:Didn't notice I deleted another nomination, probably because it slotted between mine and the image. I apologize for the kerfuffle. [[User:Bravada|Bravada]], [[User talk:Bravada|talk]] - 11:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
: Britannica is an authority on everything. It's up to you to prove that it's not reliable. This is the best known general encyclopaedia reflecting the views of the scientific mainstream. Besides, I don't see a point in following hydrologists on the issue. If anyone, we should consult historians/linguists. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 06:50, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
::This is a discussion for the talk page of the article. In short, Peipus is a historical name, which was the major one, but not anymore. By area, the lakes (there are three of them, not one) are more in Russia, but the English literature calls them more by Estonian name (try searching any source, Google Books, Google, whatever, restricting to English language results). Being bold is good, but to a certain extent. Cheers. [[User:Materialscientist|Materialscientist]] ([[User talk:Materialscientist|talk]]) 06:56, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
::: Your reply did nothing to address my concerns. From what I can see, the coverage of Russian lakes/rivers in the English segment of Wikipedia is a joke. There are no pages on many major rivers (check the number of interwiki links in [[:ru:Демьянка (река)]] or [[:ru:Курейка (река)]], the former being one of Asia's longest rivers). And the existing pages lack in content: e.g., [[Don River (Russia)]], with its ridiculously Anglo-centric title. All right, why should I care. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
::::Well, that what I was doing these weeks - expanding those articles lake/river/sea articles, but stopped for now, just before Don, and any help is welcome. As to Peipus, there are wikipedia naming policies and conventions, and it seems to me after your reply that this has to be decided at the [[Talk:Lake_Peipus#Reopen_name_discussion|talk page]], and you are welcome to bring your calm thoughts .. [[User:Materialscientist|Materialscientist]] ([[User talk:Materialscientist|talk]]) 07:14, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 
=== [[sobornost]]Don ===
Thanks for [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_River&action=history the tip]. I think [[Don River (Russia)]] should go to [[Don]]. Or maybe we should just move [[Thames]] to [[Thames River (England)]] :-) -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 16:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
God and Theotokos bless you, Ghirlandajo. The edits where most appreciated! Could you look at [[sophiology]] for me and also I would like to start a Russian neo-idealism article.
: There is little we can do about it. Alas. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 20:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
[[User:LoveMonkey|LoveMonkey]] 05:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
::Looks like I only [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_River&diff=377522578&oldid=377505079 made things worse!] -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 20:53, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
 
==DYK Barge haulers ==
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Please note that I've moved your page from "Barge Haulers on the Volga/Temp" to [[User:Ghirlandajo/Barge Haulers on the Volga]]. Temp pages should be in user sandbox space, not in article space. Thanks. [[User:Bearcat|Bearcat]] ([[User talk:Bearcat|talk]]) 02:01, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
== Kodori Valley <-> Upper Abkhazia ==
 
==Defunct towns and former cities==
Against my better judgement I got involved in an edit war on the renaming of the article on the [[Kodori Valley]] to ''"[[Upper Abkhazia]]"''. I am asking for your advise and support. I was considering posting a notice about the ongoing militant POV-pushing edits on [[Abkhazia]] in the "urgent announcement" section of [[Portal:Russia/New article announcements]]. Although this seems to be the common way to gather support for Russia-related issues, I am not sure if it is the real Wikipedia way.
Nope, we definitely don't need to have two of them. Re-organizing the whole defunct/former/abolished/destroyed mess is one of the projects on my to-do list, but if you have an inclination to sort them out, please do so by all means, because I don't have any plans to start working on this any time soon. Help would most certainly be appreciated. Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); August&nbsp;10, 2010; 21:01 (UTC)
 
==Hunyad Castle==
In case you are wondering why I show interest in such issues and places, I am not the [[russophobe]] you somethimes think I am. In fact my great-great-grandfather was decorated for serving the Tsar in the Caucasus. -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] 22:59, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Hunyad castle is not a gothic revival, it was a precise renovation of an erased Gothic-Renaissance castle. [[File:Burg Vajad Hunyad (Rumaenien).jpg|thumb|right|The ruins of the castle in 1865]]
 
== Re:RfCEditors in Samara? ==
 
Hey Ghirla, do you know of any editors in Samara who can help out with photos as required at [[User:Russavia/Required_photos#Samara]]. If you can think of anyone would you mind pointing them out to me, or perhaps point them to that page? Cheers, --[[User:Russavia|Russavia]] <sup>[[User talk:Russavia|I'm chanting as we speak]]</sup> 22:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I've saw it. I'm afraid I don't have enough time atm moment to preach to the uncovertable. '''[[User:Calgacus|Calgacus]] (''[[User talk:Calgacus|ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ]]'')''' 17:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
: [[:ru:Википедия:Проект:Несвобода панорамы|Most of them will be deleted anyways]]. I left a note on the talk pages of Atgnclk and Роман Янковский from [[:ru:Категория:Википедия:Участники из Самары]]. The Samara wikipedians are not very active, though. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 06:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
:: Hey Ghirla, some of them will be [[:Commons:Template:PD-Rus-Empire}} due to them being built before November 1917, and the rest will likely be [[:Commons:Template:PD-Russia-2008]] due to the buildings being built before the 1943 cut off date - the embassies were relocated to Samara in 1941. So I don't think we will hit any snags in that regard. Thanks for posting the messages, I appreciate it; perhaps I will get an answer or two :) Cheers, --[[User:Russavia|Russavia]] <sup>[[User talk:Russavia|I'm chanting as we speak]]</sup> 12:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 
==Outrrrrrrrageous!==
==Job vs. Jove==
IFeel don'tfree knowto muchleave (well,a anything)message abouton the subject, so I may be missingtalk somethingpage, butfile wean should use the name under which this person is best known in English language academic works. If more than one version is commonly used[[WP:RM|RM]], thenor anymove wouldit be acceptable (the choice of the first major contributor usually takes precedence)back. If there are many versionsCheers, none of which is firmly established, we should go with romanization (''Iov''). Hope this helps.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 16:28August&nbsp;20, 22010; October 200614:24 (UTC)
 
== Re:Salon ==
I will explain the geo-portion. As for the historical names, I see Mikka and Irpen already left him their notes. You might want to leave one yourself so there's no mistake that such massive moves are disruptive. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 12:20, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I see your point, and personally, I would find that interesting to read. But it would be difficult: the article has a section of "Salons outside of France", where the nations outside of France are given a summary - such as the first salons, the most notable salon-holders and a few words about the importance and characteristics given to the phenomena in each country. There, of course, Russia should be included as well. To give Russia its own section would, therefore, make it necessary to give each nation its own section. France is already treated specially, but that is of course because it is the original country of the phenomena. My suggestion is therefore, that Russia is either included in the "Salons outside of France"-section, or, if it is given its own section, that each nation mentioned in the "Salons outside of France"-section is given its own chapter under this title, where Russia, of course, is one. Individual Salon-holders al deserve their own articles. Good luck! --[[User:Aciram|Aciram]] ([[User talk:Aciram|talk]]) 12:55, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 
:Not every paragraph in a Wikipedia article needs a '''boldface''' title. There is surely room at [[Salon (gathering)]] for a more complete discussion of the role of salons in Russia.--[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] ([[User talk:Wetman|talk]]) 17:25, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
==Lawering & trolling==
Hello, all I asked you to do is to drop an URL to a website or put name of book/ journal/ magazine/ other source you are getting your images from. Is that so hard? Google and Yahoo! has good image searches to help you out. Is it lawering asking to comply with simple Wikipedia policies asking to copy&paste website addresses? I am not directly questioning if PD tags are appropriate or not (except for one case when it is obviously not). Is it trolling trying to remove and clean up huge amounts of mistagged, orphaned, and unsourced images? I am just a human version of OrphanBot. And, BTW, [[:Image:Lubyanka 1916.jpg]] is not PD-Soviet either. It was created in 1916, and Soviet Union - only in 1922. And, BTW, if you mention it, the fact the guy in [[:Image:Mikhail gorchakov.jpg]] (and that's not a photo) died in 1800's does not make the image PD. The image could have been created last year. [[User:YellowDot|YellowDot]] 17:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==List of regional characteristics of European cathedral architecture‎==
==Sknyatino cats==
Found your comment.
Hi, Ghirla! Regarding [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sknyatino&curid=2279853&diff=79254511&oldid=79232767 this edit]. The purpose of the [[:Category:Rural settlements in Russia]] is in fact to list only ''existing'' rural settlements. It should not cover entities which are no longer rural settlements (otherwise it would cover pretty much all settlements in Russia), nor those that ceased to exist (for that, I suggest [[:Category:Settlements in Russia that ceased to exist]], or something to that effect; it could cover all sunken, burned, razed, or otherwise demolished settlements). This is more than just formality; that's factual accuracy.
As you have probably observed, this article has recently been calvbed off another article. It originally pertained directly to Western Europe, but no longer does.
 
I have been working on the other article first, and making headway, but have been interrupted by some more pressing personal matters. I will get around to fixing this present article soon I hope, by including regional characteristics from many other countries in a fuller way. Meanwhile, can you give some thought as to which characteristics and photos should be included for Russia etc? [[User:Amandajm|Amandajm]] ([[User talk:Amandajm|talk]]) 07:52, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I am not as clear-cut about [[:Category:Cities on the Volga]]. I feel uneasy to call a non-existing entity "a city on the Volga" when it's in fact neither, but I can see how this can be convenient from ''that'' category's perspective.
 
== Ivan IV ==
I'll remove the first cat but leave the second one in. If you wish, I can start the category for demolished settlements (I think Russian Wikipedia has one), but I need to think of a better name first. If you have any suggestions, I will gladly welcome them.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 15:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Please revert [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan_IV_of_Russia&action=historysubmit&diff=382848237&oldid=382838907 your edit]. I can't see, how 2 non-vague historical evidences may not suffice:
:Your suggestions are valid, although actually categorization is not as rigid as you seem to imply. It seems to me that the primary purpose of categorization is to help locating articles and to prevent them from being lost in the endless maze that Wikipedia is. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 16:02, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
# Флоря Б. Н. Иван Грозный
::I realize there is some flexibility; however, categorization also helps editors (as opposed to readers) to work within the big picture. If we start adding everything but the kitchen sink into "Rural settlements in Russia", that's going to complicate my job considerably; perhaps to the point when that particular cat will become unusable to me. Restricting scope in ways that are logical and do not diminish both readers' and editors' convenience is always more preferrable than overgeneralization for the sake of simplicity.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 16:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
# [[Heinrich von Staden|Генрих Штаден]]. Записки о Московии
for proof please read russian wiki [http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#.D0.9E.D1.82.D0.BD.D0.BE.D1.88.D0.B5.D0.BD.D0.B8.D1.8F_.D1.81_.D1.86.D0.B0.D1.80.D0.B5.D0.BC|here] (section "Отношения с царём") about his favourite [[User:Soshial|Soshial]] ([[User talk:Soshial|talk]]) 15:12, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
On the third day of your silence I will revert your edit. Thx for understanding. [[User:Soshial|Soshial]] ([[User talk:Soshial|talk]]) 06:41, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 
==Belsky==
== привет. Это я добавляю ссылки на Энциклопедию в статьях ==
What was your reference on [[Belsky family (Gediminid)]]? I have a ref for most of the stuff, but not all details. BTW, you should add a ref to [[Shuisky]] too.
 
Will see what I can do on [[Patrikas]], but I do not think I have good sources. [[User:Renata3|Renata]] ([[User talk:Renata3|talk]]) 06:55, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
ты просил что-то пояснить?
 
== Luigi Premazzi Picture in Tsarskoe selo ==
== Thank you ==
 
Hi Ghirladajo,
I've just returned from a very long and hard day, and have not the energy just yet to catch up, the large martini has not quite hit home, but I saw [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Fred_Bauder&curid=1348475&diff=79274207&oldid=79232177#Blocking_policy this] and thought it very kind - thanks. [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 17:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
::I've just been reading it all, I think we could extend the devoted service to Geogre (he ha not yet mentioned Bishonen) I arrived here as [[User: Ragussa]] in May 2004, and I think Geogre was already here then, I wouldn't bother mentioning it all again though, it's all rather bruising enough as it is! [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 17:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 
I was wondering how you obtained the following image:
== Size of the articles ==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Premazzi.jpg
used in the article Tsarskoe Selo.
My wife has written a book on Russian history of the period that that painting is from, and she wants to use this reproduction as the picture for the cover of the book. However the publisher requires permission from the photographer. Do you happen to know who that might be?
I would appreciate any information you could provide. I can be also reached at the alexinquest@gmail.com
Thanks.
Alex
: I believe the painting was scanned by the Hermitage Museum.[http://hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/descrPage.mac/descrPage?selLang=English&indexClass=PICTURE_EN&PID=OR-29467&numView=1&ID_NUM=64&thumbFile=%2Ftmplobs%2FY6YXT81RDP5JD_402_406.jpg&embViewVer=last&comeFrom=quick&sorting=no&thumbId=6&numResults=69&tmCond=premazzi&searchIndex=TAGFILEN&author=Premazzi%2C%26%2332%3BLuigi] Try searching for "Premazzi" on their website. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 19:36, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 
::I have uploaded a higher resolution version of the image and added a link to the source page. State Hermitage Museum would have even better versions of this, but most likely you would have to pay to get access. -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 15:29, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
I have found only the guidelines on [[Article_size#A_rule_of_thumb]]
>50K - should be divided, >30K may eventually be divided, <20K should never be divided. The [[Russia]] article is 34K. I would say that it should not be divided as it is now [[User:Alex Bakharev|abakharev]] 18:05, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Russia GA reassessment==
What's wrong in having a redecuced article?--[[User:РКП|РКП]] 11:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, [[Russia]] has been nominated for a [[Wikipedia:Good article reassessment|good article reassessment]]. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments [[Talk:Russia{{#if:1|/GA1}}|here]] . If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. [[User:Philipmj24|Philipmj24]] ([[User talk:Philipmj24|talk]]) 03:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
:Alex, [[Russia]] was 49K this morning before [[User:РКП|РКП]] started trimming it. I'd say the split was justified.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 18:14, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
::RKP started butchering it brainlessly, not trimming. I have serious suspicions he is a sock of a seasoned troll. `'[[user:mikkalai|mikka]] [[user talk:mikkalai|(t)]] 17:52, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
:::I didn't say that I approved ''how'' he did it. I still, however, stand by my statement that a 49K article is too long, be it for the largest country in the world or not. Brevity is a sister of you-know-what, and if articles on other countries exceed the 50K limit, it only tells that there is work to be done there as well.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 17:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
::What can I say? Russia is not [[Bhutan]]. The largest country is the world should have the largest article in Wikipedia. Actually, it doesn't. Just a random check: Signapore is 58K, Ireland is 57K, Romania is 56K, etc. Now anonymous people will consider the article too short and start adding all kind of nonsense there. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 08:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Stubs==
==Himalayan Brown Bear==
Please do not use "stub" as an excuse for removing information from an article. Our stubs are under development, and if some information appears "too detailed" for a stub, well, that's just editors expanding the article out of stub status - and that's great! [[User:Rklawton|Rklawton]] ([[User talk:Rklawton|talk]]) 12:39, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Heh, yea that [[Himalayan Brown Bear|article]] is new. I saw a red link, was bored, looked it up, and started an article. [[User:Dinosaur puppy|<font style="background:yellow" face="Verdana" color="darkgreen">T REX</font>]]<sub>[[User talk:Dinosaur puppy|<font style="background:darkgreen" face="Tahoma" color="yellow"><b>speak</b></font>]]</sub> 20:00, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Moving on ==
Здраствуйте. I've already indicated my desire elsewhere, in a number of venues, to move on from past conflicts. I trust you will see clear the path to same. Let's not re-litigate the past. Best, [[User:Vecrumba|P<small>ЄTЄRS</small> <s>J</s> V<small>ЄСRUМВА</small>]]<small> ►[[User_talk:Vecrumba|TALK]]</small> 14:19, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
:Seconded. --<sub><span style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]|[[User_talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> talk </span>]]</span></sub> 17:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 
== Babolovo Palace ==
==DYK==
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Great job on the [[Babolovo Palace]]. It's precisely these kinds of articles that make Wikipedia the excellent source that it is. Had not heard of the palace previously. DYK, maybe? [[User:Dr. Dan|Dr. Dan]] ([[User talk:Dr. Dan|talk]]) 15:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
It's all right. Let's discuss then [[User:РКП|РКП]] 11:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Vladimir==
It's fine with me. --[[User:РКП|РКП]] 11:20, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Hopefully [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vladimir&diff=386774358&oldid=386773226 this] should work? I still think that there are way too many pictures of churches for one article, but oh well. Is there nothing else in the city of interest?—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); September&nbsp;24, 2010; 17:04 (UTC)
 
== [[Vladimir-Suzdal]] ==
== Kenmore & the Battle of Krasnoi ==
 
Listen, please, do not be judgmental seeing me as some anti-Russian or whatever. I am, certainly, not that. The information about the Vladimir Principality is too vague. There is really no historical development on how it actually appeared and why until Yuri Dolgoruki. There is also no clear mentioning that Andrei Bogolyubsky changed the Vladimir Principality into the Grand Principality. Little or no information is on the conflicts that took place in the Northeastern Rus. The information that I posted is drawn from other articles and mostly based on the Russian version as well. Would it be possible instead of just purging my edits at least let me know that they need to be revised? [[User:Aleksandr Grigoryev|Aleksandr Grigoryev]] ([[User talk:Aleksandr Grigoryev|talk]]) 01:04, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
My apologies for bothering you with this, but any assistance you could provide with [[User_talk:Kenmore#Battle_of_Krasnoi|this issue]] would be very appreciated! Thanks! [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 20:40, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==???==
==La Bayadere Article==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kronstadt&diff=389057150&oldid=388991849 A number of moves]??? I may recall one or two where I got a distinct impression that you didn't like them, but a "number"? 90% of the moves I did since August were those of soccer players; somehow I don't think that's what you've got a problem with? Care to elaborate? I always appreciate feedback, even from an old grump like you. Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); October&nbsp;6, 2010; 14:10 (UTC)
What you did yesterday looks terrific! (Charts do not really work here.)[[User:Queenofthewilis|Queenofthewilis]] 12:07, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
: I refer to your way of moving our articles about Russian towns to the most monstrous title imaginable, e.g., [[Vereshchagino, Vereshchaginsky District, Perm Krai]], [[Usolye, Usolsky District, Perm Krai]], [[Otradnoye, Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast]], [[Chernushka, Chernushinsky District, Perm Krai]], etc. As if a town of 35000 people were on the same level of prominence as a village of ten people (see [[Chernushka]], for instance). Such moves defy common sense and everything that is important when naming articles (namely, conciseness, naturalness, and so on). --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:14, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
::Ghirla, this is not the Russian Wikipedia. To our average reader, an obscure town in Russia is not much different from an obscure village&mdash;it's not like we are equating, say, the village of Moskva in Kirov Oblast with the capital of Russia. The naming is in full compliance with [[WP:NC:CITY#Russia|our naming guidelines]], and our guidelines are, of course, already the epitome of "common sense" and "naturalness" (OK, I'm pulling your leg here somewhat, but at least that's their intent). If you have a problem with a particular guideline, you can always file an RfC, and if you have a problem with how a guideline is being applied, you can always submit a [[WP:RM|move request]]. If you have reasonable concerns, I'll be the last person to ignore them. Why you choose instead to bitch about how everything sucks and only you can save the day is frankly beyond me. No offense, but it's not easy to take your opinion seriously when you start blabbering about a completely unrelated "problem" in a random venue.
::At any rate, the four moves you've found (one of which isn't even by me) are a far cry from "we need to run a bot to revert all that". Cut out the panic, will ya? Even the statistics don't corroborate you theory that these moves are somehow "damaging". Chernushka, for example, was moved on August&nbsp;20. It was getting on average [http://stats.grok.se/en/201008/Chernushka around ten hits a day] prior to being moved, and it [http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Chernushka%2C_Chernushinsky_District%2C_Perm_Krai keeps getting about the same number of hits] after being moved. Apparently, the article isn't as hard to find as you would lead us to believe. And [[Usolye, Usolsky District, Perm Krai]] is getting more daily hits now than before the move ([http://stats.grok.se/en/201009/Usolye%2C_Usolsky_District%2C_Perm_Krai around 10] vs. [http://stats.grok.se/en/201008/Usolye ~2-5] before the move). Hmmm...—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); October&nbsp;7, 2010; 14:33 (UTC)
::: Those statistics are broken, nobody knows how they count hits. Why not take a cue from the Russian Wikipedia which at least has pages on those villages (in English Wikipedia, they are likely to remain red-linked for the next 15 or 30 years). If it is [[:ru:Верещагино]] for Russians, I don't see why it should be so complicated for foreigners. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:27, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
::::Not sure where you got the idea that the stats are "broken" and that "nobody knows how they work", but broken or not, they are at least consistent. The numbers themselves may be off, but the trends they show are pretty accurate (DYKs, major re-writes, and moves always show a spike in activity, while forgotten and abandoned articles show a steady small stream of hits over time with no aberrations). Not that it matters. What matters is the guidelines which we (not ru_wiki) have in place. In case you haven't noticed, I am not the one in charge of writing the guidelines; I'm just a poor peasant stuck with having to enforce them (including those where lunacy is apparent). In this case, I don't even have a problem with the applicable guidelines, so why should I be the one to "take a cue" and waste my time trying to think up something ''better'' to replace them with? Like I said in the past, if you have a problem with the way things are done, you either find RfC [[WP:RfC|thataway]], or simply live with the parts of the system you don't like. Just [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Kronstadt&diff=389057150&oldid=388991849 don't shoot the messengers].—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); October&nbsp;7, 2010; 16:01 (UTC)
 
=="Russian Princes"==
== OrphanBot vs. YellowDot ==
Wondering if you have an opinion on what should be done with [[list of Russian Princes Families|this]]? Thanks.—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); October&nbsp;20, 2010; 13:30 (UTC)
: Dunno. It's full of odd transliterations and factual mistakes. Наспех сляпанная поделка. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 13:37, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
::Yes, I can see that. But is there anything salvageable? Or anything it can be redirected/merged to?—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); October&nbsp;20, 2010; 14:02 (UTC)
 
== Undiscussed page move of [[Muhajirism (Caucasus)]] ==
Is there any rational explanation why OrphanBot targets the same images that were assaulted by [[User:Yellow Dot]], who proclaims himself a "human version of OrphanBot"? This self-professed newbie seems to possess a weird gift of prognosticating the bot's actions. What is the relationship between the two? --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 10:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Please don't do this without discussion. The best name for this article is already under discussion at [[Talk:Muhajir_(Caucasus)#Rename_to_Circassian_Genocide]]. It helps no-one if a number of different editors move it back and forth without agreement beforehand. [[User:Andy Dingley|Andy Dingley]] ([[User talk:Andy Dingley|talk]]) 09:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
:As far as I can tell, the only relationship is that YellowDot is targeting those images that OrphanBot can't: images that require human judgement to tell if they don't have source information, or an incorrect license, or that they violate [[Wikipedia:Fair use criteria]], for example. Once YellowDot places an image in [[:Category:Images with unknown source]] or [[:Category:Images with unknown copyright status]], OrphanBot will remove it from articles and notify the uploader, but it would do the same no matter who placed it in those categories.
 
== [[Rynda]] ==
:As a side note, unless explicitly stated otherwise, all image use policies are retroactive. This means that all images need source information, and all images claimed as "fair use" need to follow the fair use criteria. --[[User:Carnildo|Carnildo]] 18:38, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 
I have read that there was a bodyguard or some such institution in medieval Russia that was composed of very tall, young men, carrying an axe. They supposedly wore white, and the appearance of their height was increased by wearing tall hats. One often sees them in operatic and theatrical productions from time to time. Were these the Rynda, or was there also some other group that fits this description? The English article is paltry and the Russian article was not much help. Are you familiar with the subject at all? Thanks. [[User:Dr. Dan|Dr. Dan]] ([[User talk:Dr. Dan|talk]]) 20:33, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
==RE [[User:Gugutis]]==
: I think you are right. I will probably add some details to [[Rynda]]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 05:54, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 
==Russian painters==
Hello, I reviewed the article and at least in some parts of it reminds me [[Marija Gimbutas]] works, sadly new user do not provided any addition refs. Nevertheless I added additional message to his talk explaining situation. [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 19:58, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to draw your attention to the thread [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Biography#Russian_painters|here]], about the editing activities of {{User|Leningradartist}}. Any comments or advice relating to same would be mush appreciated. --[[User:Ohconfucius|<span style="color:Black;font:bold 8pt kristen itc;text-shadow:cyan 0.3em 0.3em 0.1em; class=texhtml">Ohconfucius</span>]] [[User talk:Ohconfucius|<sup>¡digame!</sup>]] 08:32, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
:No problem, I added particular user to mine watch. [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 21:05, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Photos from Russia ==
==Golden Ring==
hi ghirla, at begin wikilink User:Russavia/Required photos end wikilink i have compiled a long list of photos that i am needing for numerous articles i have under development and future articles i will be working on. Do you know of anyone who can help with any of the photos, especially those i need from russia. If u could put me in touch with anyone, or conversely them with me, i would be most appreciative. Cheers, russavia
Greetings. I've just made [[Template:RUGoldenRing|this]] off [[:ru:Шаблон:Золотое кольцо России|this]]. Many of the English articles are much weaker than their Russian equivalents (Alexandrov and Plyos, for instance). However, given that we don't have anything at all on Kideksha, I would appreciate it if you could translate that. I know there's a formal procedure for requesting translations, but it's only a matter of a couple of paragraphs. [[User:Biruitorul|Biruitorul]] 05:40, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
: All right, I look forward to it. [[User:Biruitorul|Biruitorul]] 06:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[Tmutarakan]]Golden Eagle Awards ==
 
hello, I would like to know where you found that [[Nikita Mihalkov]] institued the [[Golden Eagle Awards]]. Please give me a reference for that. Thank you.--<span style="color:#A4D3EE; background-color:#E0EEEE;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> [[User:GreatOrangePumpkin|♫Greatorangepumpkin♫]] </span><span style="color:Black; background-color:#A4D3EE;font-family: 'Gigi'">[[User talk:GreatOrangePumpkin|T]]</span> 20:26, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
No, I'm not disputing anything; if I did, I would have added a disputed template. I'm only requesting that sources for the article are provided because they are necessary for verifiability. I may list some sources myself later today. [[User:Beit Or|Beit]] [[User talk:Beit Or|Or]] 11:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Death of Ordu Khan==
== Thanks for the tip on the portal announcements! ==
Hello, I see that in your revision of the article about [[Orda Khan]] there's dates 1204 (birth) and 1280 (+). This data was translated to all the existent articles in others languages, less Russian (and catalan because I'm trying to stablish it). Can you check if is the correct date?; the successor Qun Quran already deceased in 1280 but reigned 1251-1280, while Orda reigned 1226 (in fact not before 1227 and surely from 1229) to 1251. If is not, and must be c. 1251, please correct all the wikipedies that copied the wrong date. Many thanks. --[[Special:Contributions/88.19.48.203|88.19.48.203]] ([[User talk:88.19.48.203|talk]]) 18:27, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
By the way, the new image posted for ''La Bayadere'' is copywrited and I see no indication that its photographer has given it up to the public ___domain... will our article be in jeopardy because of this --or does it not really matter? Also, I see there are suddenly MANY images being posted in this fashion on different ballet-related articles here. Being new to Wikipedia, I do not know all of the ins and outs so I thought I would ask you. Indicating that the image was ''scanned by the wikiuser'' themself, or that it comes from their ''private collection of books'' or is being ''uploaded for educational use'' does not really fall into Wikipedia's guidelines on copywrite infringement, does it? If this is really no big deal (legally) then please let me know because I probably have a bigger collection of images than anyone here! I've just been afraid to use them unless they are over 100 yrs old or have absolutely been released into public ___domain by the photographer THEMSELVES. Please advise.[[User:Queenofthewilis|Queenofthewilis]] 13:15, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Soloviev Opinion?==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AWinter_Palace&action=historysubmit&diff=424429343&oldid=424424273] This is something you may know about and have an opinion on. [[User:GiacomoReturned|Giacomo]] [[User_talk:GiacomoReturned|Returned]] 21:35, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Yes me too. Be careful what you wish for. ;>)
God Bless.
[[User:LoveMonkey|LoveMonkey]] 14:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Re: [[Speak, Memory]]==
==What??==
Hi, I noted that you removed the caption of the image of the estate of Rozhdestveno that indicated that "Nabokov inherited the [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli|Rastelli]]- designed estate "Rozhestveno" in 1916." The picture had been taken by User:Alexey Lavrov attesting that it was VN's house, and VN describes (p72) that he inherited the house in 1916, upon the death of his uncle Ruka. Can you please explain where you see the problem with the caption that you had to remove it? [[User:Ekem|Ekem]] ([[User talk:Ekem|talk]]) 02:26, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Dude, take it easy. Situation is already tense. What does America has to do with that? It is Russia and Georgia crisis. [[User:Sosomk|Sosomk]] 15:48, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
:Some wisecrackers say that there are two states named Georgia in the USA. Do you believe yourself that Saakashvili's policies are independent? --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 15:51, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
:As you noticed there is now a [[Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate]] site in the English WP; it would be helpful if you could include a comment about the building, namely when it was built, who the architect was, and - if this is not known, as claimed in the French WP - to say so (preferably with a reference). [[User:Ekem|Ekem]] ([[User talk:Ekem|talk]]) 15:13, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
::Yes I do. The White House did not even make a comment about the crisis yet. Trust me, if Georgia was another state of the US, this would be different. The only people who are gonna pay for it are the poor Georgian living in Russia whoa re being devastated and killed by the Russian Skinheads and thousands of refugees who are kicked out of their homeland by the Russian-Abkhaz coalition. ''See, Dmitry Kholodov''. You can't imagine how much of a Kiss-Ass job Georgia has done to Russia during the history. The biggest pride of Georgian people is independence and hopefully, the UN will help us not to get ''nuked'' by Russia. [[User:Sosomk|Sosomk]] 15:58, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[Lev Berg]] ==
:::Georgia hails to the great comrade [[Putin]], the best friend of all children. [[User:Sosomk|Sosomk]] 16:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
You might want to check out [[Lev Berg]], although you may already have it on your watchlist.
:::: Girla, common my friend, nobody wants to see you disappointed. We all should work together aside of our differences of political views or believes. I’m not your opponent, on contrary. And i learn from people like you who have experience of Russian affairs and history. So, let’s stop this nonsense. And im not Georgian editor, although I do love Georgia and her people due to the fact that i have traveled there since 1991. Also traveled to Russia many times. Unfortunately never visited Yaroslav. Also please don’t bite Kober sometimes :) He is an amazing person, very friendly and understanding. All the best. [[User:Ldingley|Ldingley]] 16:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
I'm not entirely happy with how things are proceeding, although I think they will get sorted out. See [[User talk:Liveintheforests#Leo S. Berg]] for some of the background.
I agree with Ghirla.In my opinion,Saakashvilli is bloody dictator,who's reign is a danger to the citizens of Georgia and the neighbouring states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.[[User:Dimts|Dimts]] 08:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 
I am assuming that Joe will agree with me and make sure some of the material recently removed is restored.
== What gives!? ==
 
Assuming that happens, I have some question about the material which I believe you added.
First I find myself on the same side as you in 2 votes (in one week, no less) and now we appear to be working peacefully towards improving the [[Tmutarakan]] article... perhaps a new era of detente in Ghirla-Briangotts relations has dawned... [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 18:52, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 
You added the sentence:
== Our interaction ==
<blockquote>
Among his pioneering monographs on [[climatology]] were "Climate and Life" (1922) and "Foundations of Climatology" (1928).
</blockquote>
 
I wonder if "Foundations of Climatology" is a typo. There is such a work, but by someone else. Berg wrote "Principles of climatology", and I'm wondering if you meant to say that.
Ghirla, I spoke highly of you in the RFAr regarding you. Rest assured I carry no grudge. And yet in several recent comments you have expressed hostility towards me. I ask you not to be angry with me and to cooperate with me in calming the debate. Any time you wish to discuss with me on our talk pages in a civil manner I will be happy to accommodate you. --[[User:Ideogram|Ideogram]] 07:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
I don't know who added the list of works, but one is "Principles of climatology" (1926). However, [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Principles+of+Climatology%22+Berg&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C7&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 this search] suggests it was 1938, not 1926. Do you concur?
 
BTW, 175K edits? Quite impressive. Quite.--<font style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:15px;">[[User:Sphilbrick|<span style="background:#002868;color:#fff;padding:0 4px">SPhilbrick</span>]][[User talk:Sphilbrick|<span style="background:#ADD8E6;padding:0 4px;color:#fff;">T</span>]]</font> 17:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
==DYK==
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== [[SviatoslavTalk:Kirill I of KievEskov]] ==
 
In the past, you commented on his name there. The issue is back. --<sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]&#124;[[User talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> talk </span>]]</sub> 20:11, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
I think this article needs a lot of work. I would like to bring it up to par with some of the other articles. As it stands it consists of a very small biographical sketch and a huge excerpt from Gibbon (which probably would be more appropriate in wikisource). I'll be researching and making expansions to the current text as I'm able in the coming weeks. If you could look in on it from time to time and make changes, perhaps we could collaborate on this. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 16:07, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[The Princess of the Tide]] ==
I've made some major expansion and added citations. Still needs some work. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 21:14, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Can you identify the source of the translation? I am needing to know that the translation is in the public ___domain to be able to transfer it to Wikisource, and there is no information available to make the determination. Thanks. — [[user:billinghurst|billinghurst]] ''<span style="font-size:smaller">[[user talk:billinghurst|sDrewth]]</span>'' 00:08, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Do you know what the name "Sviatoslav" means? [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 14:02, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Proposal ==
:''Holy Glory. I would like to know what is the Norse counterpart to this. --Ghirla -трёп- 14:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)''
 
Hi, {{u|Ghirlandajo}}. Please have a look at this proposal [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocks_and_bans “Global blocks and bans.”] If you [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User%3AGhirlandajo have a long block log] in the English Wikipedia, you will be able to be blocked or banned in the Russian and any other Wikipedia as well when this proposal is approved. And vice versa. Take my best wishes. --[[User:Psychiatrick|Psychiatrick]] ([[User talk:Psychiatrick|talk]]) 07:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
::I believe it would be "Helgatyr" (Helgi= holy and tyr=glory) but I'm not aware that this was ever used as a personal name. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 14:17, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[Cafe Gurzuf (painting)]] ==
:::Actually ''Hloð'' is "Glory" in [[Old Norse]]. ''Tyr'' is [[Old English]]. Both ''Helgi'' and ''vé'' can mean "holy". There was a personal name Hloðvé which was used by a [[Jarl of Orkney]], but I'm not sure if it has the same meaning as Sviatoslav.[[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 14:24, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Created 16/10/2011. {{-)}} Yours --[[User:Borealis55|Borealis55]] ([[User talk:Borealis55|talk]]) 11:45, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 
FYICould I'veyou nominateddelete theit? article for [[WP:GA]].Yours --[[User:BriangottsBorealis55|BriangottsBorealis55]] ([[User talk:BriangottsBorealis55|(Talk)talk]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 1914:5013, 1325 OctoberNovember 20062011 (UTC)
: Why should we bother? --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:55, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
 
== Suyab ==
Do you have any info on Sviatoslav's family life? That section could use some expansion. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 19:22, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Dear Andrey,
==DYK==
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I hope we can communicate in Russian,
== Awaiting your contributions ==
 
Я была бы Вам весьма признательна, если бы Вы помогли мне точнее идентифицировать источник, ссылку на который Вы разместили.
I see that you deleted the only image from Shlisselburg. I hope that you provide a free replacement. Thanks in advance, Ghirla -трёп- 17:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for asking! I enjoy searching out images. In this case, I found that the Russian version of the article had a freely licensed image available; I've linked it from the talk page. I would have moved it to commons (and used it in the article) but it's author/source and license statements are only in Russian, so we need a Russian speaker to translate and make sure everything is shipshape. Again, thanks for asking. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC) (copied from my talk page)
 
Я не нашла внятных упоминаний об издании, которое называлось бы Central Asian Journal. Эту ссылку (и сам абзац) Вы добавили в статью Suyab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ghirlandajo), впервые она появилась в этой редакции http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suyab&oldid=134279581).
==Belltowers==
Hi Ghirlandao! Whether or not WP is a picture gallery (and by the existence of a gallery on the [[bell tower]] page there is evidently some such function associated with it), the provision of the picture of Katun bell tower was intended to show that there is a wide variety of structures that qualify, not only grandiose buildings of stone. Also, that there are some bell towers outside of Russia and Belgium - which seem for some reason to make up most of the others in the gallery. Now just because my contribution has made you cross for some reason is no justification for you to strike it out. I have therefore reinstated it. Пока - [[User:Smerus|Smerus]] 08:51, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Forte A. An Ancient Chinese Monastery Excavated in Kirgizia // Central Asian Journal, 1994. Volume 38. № 1. Pages 41-57.
:Что касаєтся 'Delvig' - извиняюсь - I made a blunder in editing and couldn't retrieve it - I entirely accept your point as regards WP procedures - however, as you know, 'Delvig' is the appropriate English usage. Всего доброго - [[User:Smerus|Smerus]] 09:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Фрагмент издания, упомянутого Вами, необходим мне для завершения популярной книжки, посвященной Суябу. Я гарантирую указание Вашего имени (если Вы того пожелаете) в разделе Acknowledgements.
==Pep Talk==
 
[[Special:Contributions/77.95.61.126|77.95.61.126]] ([[User talk:77.95.61.126|talk]]) 05:41, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Ghirlandajo old bear, were you having a "dip" on Wetman's talk page? I just put some [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lunarian#Pep_Talk Pep Talk] on my User Page you may want to partake of. It sure boosted my moral and I hope it will do for you. Now is not the time to have second thoughts about your splendid editing.
* It is apparently Central Asiatic Journal, [http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pcgi/a.cgi?ausgabe=index&T=1321511466317{haupt_harrassowitz=http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/pcgi/a.cgi?T=1321511466317&ausgabe=liste&katnav=3&knr=388&act=first&alayout=489}]. The article is not online.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 06:33, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
: Careful with your thumb in the libation though, your being watched ! :-D
*: That's right. I was using [http://ctaj.elcat.kg/tolstyi/c/c025.shtml this source]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:11, 17 November 2011 (UTC)*tnx
: ([[User:Lunarian|Lunarian]] 13:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC))
 
== VyborgA Librarybarnstar for you! ==
Excellent that you coined the Vyborg Library page! I added some things to it - e.g. Quantrill got things wrong
 
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The ceiling in the picture is of the stairs leading to the main lending desk. I've been there sevweral times - fantastic place. The page is looking good - I may yet add some things.
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[[User:Gkurmanova|Gkurmanova]] ([[User talk:Gkurmanova|talk]]) 03:38, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:02, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
*Managed to get hold of the architect responsible for the current restoration. The Russian and Finnish webpages are somewhat out of date. [[TTKK]]
 
== WhichPolen, map?Polen über Alles ==
 
I know this may be the worst possible place to post an anti-Polish rant, but here I am anyway. Anyone is free to move this discussion to a more appropriate place. My question is this: is it me who is suffering from polofobia, or does Wikipedia have some kind of a pro-Polish bias?
? --[[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 16:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 
I started off studying the [[list of largest domes of its time]]. On the list I see that ''[[Jahrhunderthalle]]'' was built in [[Wrocław]], [[Poland]] in by "[[Deutsches Reich]] Inc." or whatever. Studying the article [[Wrocław]] I learn that the town has perpetually been Polish from times immemorial.
:Thanks. I've added citations to the map's image page. The map is unfortunately [[Mercator projection]], which causes some distortion and may make Sviatoslav's empire look unrealistically big. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 19:08, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 
After some work on [[:File:Wrocław Collage.png]] I end up reading the article on [[Lviv|Lwów]]. The second sentence of the article tells me that Poles are (or were) main ethnicity of the city. Further down I understand that a terrible wrong was done to Poland in 1991 when Lwów was not returned to Polish sovereignty after the end of the second Soviet occupation.
==Your objection to Demosthenes==
Thank you for your comment in [[Demosthenes]]' FAC. I've answered to your objections. Just check [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Demosthenes]].
 
To sum up, [[Wrocław]] is totally dismissive of the existence of [[Breslau]], while [[Lviv]] reads like a [[irredentist]] rant. -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] ([[User talk:Petri Krohn|talk]]) 16:26, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
I'll just repeat here that the article follows to the letter the instructions of [[WP:LEAD]]. The article '''has to retell the whole story in a summary style''' and that's what the article does. Just check Wikipedia's rules.
 
== Arthaniya ==
And, if you want check the lead of my last FA, [[Alcibiades]], which does the same thing, exactly because it is obliged to do it.
 
Что значит, не используется, а ссылки? Arsania — это русское прочтение, ибо в русском нет звука [θ], поэтому либо «с», либо «т». И вы куда-то "y" потеряли, получился греко-латинский суффикс -ia, которого в арабском нет.--[[User:Любослов Езыкин|Luboslov Yezykin]] ([[User talk:Любослов Езыкин|talk]]) 16:40, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Cheers!--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 17:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
: Главное, какой вариант предпочитают академические источники на английском. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
:: Arsania не предпочтительнее, вы сами можете убедиться по поиску в ГуглКнигах, там это может быть вообще всё что угодно, включая имя личное и реку в Урарту. И как вы себе представляете, чтобы они арабское слово именно так транслитерировали? У них есть своя система транслитерации, чаще более точная, чем кириллическая, им не нужно для этого обращаться к русскоязычной литературе. В итоге получается, что мы арабское слово транслитерируем через кириллическое посредство, ну не бред? Википедия здесь пока английская. [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Arabic]]. --[[User:Любослов Езыкин|Luboslov Yezykin]] ([[User talk:Любослов Езыкин|talk]]) 09:14, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
::: Ok, убедили. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 13:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 
== Rurik ==
:When an author can't formulate the content of his article in several phrases, it makes a bad impression on me. If you change your lead to something along the lines of [[Aspasia]], I will support. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 07:30, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rurik&curid=26560&diff=464779686&oldid=464681504 Efanda]:
==Малый Высоцкий==
Colleague, even if this name is a "modern myth", it is part of "Rurikology", so to say. I google books it may be found in the range of ~150 years in several languages. I think this issue deserves explanation in wikipedia, otherwise it continue to pop up thanks to well-meaning, but less educated people. So, can you explain, in [[Rurik]] article, how it is "Tatischeff stuff" and all? [[User:Lom Konkreta|Lom Konkreta]] ([[User talk:Lom Konkreta|talk]]) 17:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
:'''Ефанда. Ингорь.''' Имел Рюрик несколько жен, но более всех любил Ефанду, дочерь князя урманского, и когда та родила сына Ингоря, ей обещанный при море град с Ижорою в вено дал.
Of course, I could have done [http://books.google.com/books?id=h3QrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR39&dq=%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0&hl=en&ei=7_TgTuzVIarMiQKr7O2nDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%D0%95%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0&f=false some research myself], but I guess you can do it better. [[User:Lom Konkreta|Lom Konkreta]] ([[User talk:Lom Konkreta|talk]]) 17:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
:: The page was heavily vandalised at some point after I had lost interest in English Wikipedia. I reinstated a version of the page last edited by me 5 years ago. P.S. Nobody cares about such matters here. Every article on Russia's early history steadily comes to ruin. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 19:39, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 
==[[Dasha Sevastopolskaya]]==
I'm wondering about your conventional spelling of this as Malyi Vysotski since Google returns 13,500 hits for "Malyj Vysotskij" and only 22 for Malyi Vysotski. According to all transliteration rules in use in the English language, there is also no possible way to get Malyi Vysotski out of Малый Высоцкий. The article [[Romanization of Russian]] has information on transliterating Russian into English. I would appreciate if you could change both articles back to the version Malyj Vysotskij. Большое спасибо! -Юит (Yupik)
I wonder, would you be at all interested in correcting the (no doubt many but inadvertent) mistakes in this new article on an interesting person? I would be very grateful for any comments you might have. -- [[User:Ferma|Ferma]] ([[User talk:Ferma|talk]]) 21:52, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
:Both wrong. Romanization of Russian is governed by the ''guideline'' in the Wikipedia space (i.e., [[Wikipedia:Romanization of Russian]]), ''not'' by the ''article'' is the Main namespace (i.e., [[Romanization of Russian]]). I made the correction accordingly. Thanks once again for bringing this to my attention!&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 12:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
: I've tweaked it a little. [http://www.google.com/search?q=red+cross+war&tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=ru#sclient=psy-ab&hl=ru&safe=off&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=red+cross+crimean+war+russia&pbx=1&oq=red+cross+crimean+war+russia&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=295719l299048l0l299329l15l10l0l0l0l3l766l2985l4-1.3.1l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=3a883e7dfc47d5b1&biw=1280&bih=812 It is claimed] that the Red Cross was born in Russia during the Crimean War. [[:ru:Крестовоздвиженская община сестёр милосердия]] contains more info. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 08:10, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 
Thank you for that. A few questions/comments, if I may:
== Re: Demosthenes ==
*There seem to be relatively few sources in English that mention her (hmm - thinking about it, there must be something in Helen Rappaport's "No Place for Ladies"; but do let me know if there are other good ones in Russian I should be using) but most of those that do exist seem to prefer [[Dasha Sevastopolskaya]] (or a variant) in preference to [[Dasha from Sevastopol]] or [[Dasha of Sevastopol]].[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qIikv4-0LqAC&pg=PA49][http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aORoAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA311] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_6fYE7MDCKsC&pg=PA137] Should the geographical soubriquet really be translated?
*Are there records to dismiss the idea that she could have died in Sevastopol in around 1910?
*I'm not sure Dasha is the best Russian counterpart to [[Florence Nightingale]] (a better comparison might be [[Mary Seacole]] perhaps). [[Ekaterina Bakunina]] is closer to Nightingale, although no article yet (that might change shortly), but personally, as Florence was more of an organiser than a nurse, I think [[Princess Charlotte of Württemberg|Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna]] is the best fit. No doubt we ought to be reporting what the sources say.
There are clear parallels, but I doubt [[Jean-Henri Dunant]] or the [[ICRC]] would accept that the Red Cross was "born" in Russia in the form of the Sisters of Mercy! -- [[User:Ferma|Ferma]] ([[User talk:Ferma|talk]]) 21:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
 
== Barnstar ==
First, you compare two different articles. [[Aspasia]] is much shorter than [[Demosthenes]]. It is not the same thing. Demosthenes' length demands a longer lead and not "just a few sentences". Hence, it is not a lack of "ability" but the different needs of two different "articles" that demand two different styles of lead.
 
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Second, why you tell me about Aspasia and why do't you compare Demosthenes with [[Alcibiades]]? These are similar articles that can be compared. In [[Alcibiades]] nobody found a problem with a lead. You don't want [[Alcibiades]]. Ok, take other FA articles about ancient Greeks: [[Theramenes]], [[Epaminondas]], [[Thrasybulus]]? What about them? Why during the nominations of these FACs (whose leads are line mine) nobody found a problem with the lead? Just think about that.
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Third, you tell me to rewrite a lead, which already fully conforms with [[WP:LEAD]]. The lead must stand alone as an overview of the article. What you ask me to do will not stand! It will be something wrong! Please read carefulle [[WP:LEAD]].
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I don't know what is your experience with FAC proceedures, but as an editor who has in three months nominated three FAs and who actively and constantly participates as a reviewer in WP:FAC and WP:FARC I can tell you that objections for a lead fully in accordance with WP:LEAD are not actionable. Cheers!--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 07:49, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For obvious reasons. [[User talk:INeverCry|<font face="AR Cena" color="black"><b>INeverCry</b></font>]] 23:54, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 
:Hmmmmm... I'm interested in all votes. But I'm also interested in arguments. Have you thought that your objection may be based on an invalid argument? Are you sure you have checked in datail Wikipedia's guidelines before you cast your vote? And since you are not often in WP:FAC, have you thought that trends may have changed and the demands from the article may be different? Just think a bit about these things. This discussion is very interesting and I'd like to continue it, but I must leave (I have a French exam and I'll miss it!). So, if you give a new answer, you'll have my response probably in the evening. Cheers (again! - By the way, how's "Cheers" in Russian?)!--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 08:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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: Thank you. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 05:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
==Featured article candidate - [[Gliding]]==
Thank you for your comment on gliding. Can you be rather more specific than "something must be done"? How exactly is the article "spoiling fun" at present? I will make any sensible changes that you want. [[User:Jmcc150|JMcC]] 12:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your useful comments and for removing your objections. Is there any chance of positive sppport for the candidacy of [[gliding]]? [[User:Jmcc150|JMcC]] 12:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Russia/Russiansennaya Federationsquare ==
 
Hi Ghidlandajo, could you please let me know why you replaced the photo that I put in the Sennaya Square page?
Can we please continue this discussion on [[User talk:Koavf]]. He is the original contributor of the disputed edits, (and it seem he is in need of your support :-) -- [[User:Petri Krohn|Petri Krohn]] 12:54, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
The photo you put was taken from the Russian version, but it's not a good photo at all, because it's at night, so you can't see anything, and you can't distinguish any recognisable features of Sennaya Square.
Thanks.
[[User:Azylber|Azylber]] ([[User talk:Azylber|talk]]) 10:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
: Because your photo is of inferior quality and does not illustrate the article at all. [[WP:NOTREPOSITORY]]. If you want to upload your personal pictures, you may consider using [[Flickr]] or [[Wikimedia Commons]]. Wikipedia is not a proper place for storing such stuff. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 13:17, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 
Hi Ghirlandajo, thank you for reply. I understand your point of view, and I am thankful for you opinion, specially because you have a lot of experience, and I'm very new at editing wikipedia articles.
==My new Response for [[Demosthenes]]==
I've given a more detailed answer to your new comment in Demosthenes. Check [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Demosthenes]]. I'm sorry because you insist on bringing false arguments (you have obviously not read Wikipedia's instructions or, at least, you don't care so much about them) and you use wrong expamples (you compare the lead of [[Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima]], an article of 30Kb with the lead of Demosthenes, an article of 90Kb???). I suggest you give a more detailed look in FA's criteria, before you get more involved in FAC reviews. Cheers!--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 13:31, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 
In my opinion, the night photo taken from the Russian article is not good, for the following 4 reasons:
== Re: Flickr images on Wiki ==
1) it's at night
2) you can't see anything
3) you can't recognise sennaya square in it
4) it contains things that are wrong, such as the column seen at the back, which doesn't exist anymore
 
Also in my opinion, the photo that I put is better because:
Hi, I speedy deleted [[:Image:Sochistmichaels.jpg]] since the Flickr page spesify a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ non-commercial] Creative Commons variant on that image. We don't allow non-commercial licenses (excpt possebly as fair use, but that was not claimed here). Any Creative Commons license that restrict commercial use or making of derivatives (any combination with nc or nd in the name) are not allowed. If you can explain that to him, and that he has to link to the actial image page on Flickr when he upload images from there it would be nice (they allow all sorts of licenses, and it's spesified on each image). Most of those images effectively have no source. --[[User:Sherool|Sherool]] <span style="font-size:75%">[[User talk:Sherool|(talk)]]</span> 15:26, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
1) it doesn't have any of the problems with the other photo
2) everybody can recognise sennaya ploshchad from this photo
 
For these reasons, I understand that the photo that I put is not 100% ideal, but I think it's better than the night photo from the Russian article.
==About ongoing circus==
 
But like I said, you are a very important wikipedia editor, so if in your opinion it's better to have that night photo, I trust your opinion.
Yes, you are absolutely right about united front to stop ongoing stalking from particular group of contributors. This situation is unacceptable and some contributors already left, because could not cope with this staged situation. This should be stopped in any means necessary. [[User:M.K|M.K.]] 16:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Thanks,
== C'mon ==
[[User:Azylber|Azylber]] ([[User talk:Azylber|talk]]) 14:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
Don't keep fanning the flames. Please? - [[User talk:Aaron Brenneman|<font color="black">brenneman</font>]]<span class="plainlinks"> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Aaron+Brenneman<font color="black" title="Admin actions"><sup>'''{L}'''</sup></font>]</span> 06:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
::''Copied from [[User talk:Aaron Brenneman]]''
:Aaron, deleting the comments of others is considered bad manners. Such actions may be acceptable on IRC, not here. Perhaps Tony and Doc are your friends, but not mine. I have not seen a single helpful comment from them. That said, I don't see any point in encouraging drama queens. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 06:58, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
::''End copied section.''
::: Crikey. I know it's bad manners, that's why I put the note on your talk page at the same time. I'm a bit hazy on your other two sentances: You ''can't'' delete comments on IRC, I'm hardly famous as an IRC participant, and suggestions the Tony, Doc, and I are cozy are ''woefully'' misguided. I simply saw something that would further inflame an already over heated situation. Particularly when there's half a possé at ANI rounding up the incivil and shooting them. - [[User talk:Aaron Brenneman|<font color="black">brenneman</font>]]<span class="plainlinks"> [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Aaron+Brenneman<font color="black" title="Admin actions"><sup>'''{L}'''</sup></font>]</span> 07:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Commons link in the infobox==
== Re: comments regarding IRC ==
Hi, Ghirla. Could you please clarify what you meant by [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Novocherkassk&curid=1044503&diff=469539328&oldid=469175480 this comment]? I can probably implement such a parameter fairly easily, and it seems like a good idea to have a Commons link in the infobox, but I thought I'd check with you first as to what it is exactly you were expecting. Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); January&nbsp;4, 2012; 17:44 (UTC)
: Hi, Ezhiki. A standard link to an eponymous category in the Wikimedia Commons is all I ask for. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:50, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
::Is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Novocherkassk&diff=469549970&oldid=469539328 this] close to what you had in mind?—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); January&nbsp;4, 2012; 18:12 (UTC)
::: Yep, thanks. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:55, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 
==New article==
The note I put on my user page was to inform people that they can reach me there. My presence on IRC is not an attempt to gain power over anyone else or to be excused from editing in articlespace; and I don't really think it's a crime to let people know where I can be easily contacted. I should be very disappointed if I were given exception from normal procedure due to my being on IRC, but I'd also appreciate not being judged for being there as well.
Good work, Ghirlandaio! But you have now prompted me to make more requests!
 
Can you do some more of the churches in the article about cathedrals and great churches, including this one [[Cathedral of the Transfiguration, Khabarovsk]]?
As for why I posted it on ANI, I wanted to generate discussion where it'd be most likely seen. If that was an error, I apologize. --[[User:Keitei|Keitei]] <span style="font-size:75%">([[User_talk:Keitei|talk]])</span> 09:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Sorry to be such a nuisance!
== Your concerns about me ==
 
[[User:Amandajm|Amandajm]] ([[User talk:Amandajm|talk]]) 23:51, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I don't ''want'' to see anyone blocked, even the anonymous editor I have been dealing with lately. And Interiot's comment below (the second one, at 04:49) hit me right between the eyes. However, I am at a loss over what to do about it. (It is for this reason that I never commented in the first Giano thread, and will probably avoid this one from now on.) Let's say we only block "when a user is in some way making it difficult for others to contribute to Wikipedia". Well, slagging off on someone is only disruptive if that person or that person's friends take offense. So should we all turn the other cheek, and let some editors make crude personally disparaging remarks? There wouldn't be any disruption that way, but Wikipedia would be a less and less inviting place to hang around. Or, if disruption only occurs when people take offense, then the disruptiveness of a comment (and hence, its blockability) becomes a function of how many friends the target and offender each have. I was going to add a disclaimer like this to my remarks last night before you commented, but couldn't figure out how to word it, so I left it for the morning.
: Ok, Amanda. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 09:21, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
 
== [[List of buildings of Pre-Mongol Rus]] ==
Regarding your specific concerns about me, my approach in this case would have been to ask Giano nicely to reword his observations. It's a fair question to ask if the arbcom should really be thanking someone who writes such things on a public blog. And my opinion is somewhat different now than when I started this subthread, thanks to Interiot. I don't want to enshrine the principle that high status contributors can get away with whatever they want to say, but I definitely realize I have no idea how to deal with these situations effectively, so I will avoid them in the future, as I did in the first uproar and should have done this time. (Obviously the 50 or so principles and findings of fact haven't helped a damn thing.) [[User talk:Thatcher131|Thatcher131]] 11:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Если Вам несложно, проверьте там, пожалуйста, названия. По Новгороду я надеюсь сделать всё в ближайшие дни, удобнее сразу создавать статьи с подходящим названием. Заранее спасибо.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 05:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
== Sorry, was this intended for me? ==
: Надо будет посмотреть повнимательнее. Сомневаюсь, например, что киевским Золотым воротам место в этом списке. Вы планируете отдельные статьи по монастырским соборам? --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 08:45, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
:: Да, но не в первую очередь. Сначала - отдельные плюс сами монастыри, там, где нет.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 15:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 
==DYK nomination of VimpelCom Ltd.==
Hi Ghirandajo, was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Doc_glasgow&diff=81162394&oldid=81142314 this] intended for me? If it was, I have to confess that I have no idea what you are talking about, sorry. Could you explain? Thanks, [[User talk:BenAveling|Ben Aveling]] 11:49, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
[[Image:Symbol question.svg|25px]] Hello! Your submission of [[VimpelCom Ltd.]] at the [[Template talk:DYK|Did You Know nominations page]] has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath '''[[Template:Did you know nominations/VimpelCom Ltd.|your nomination's entry]]''' and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! <!--Template:DYKproblem--> [[User:Zanhe|Zanhe]] ([[User talk:Zanhe|talk]]) 05:05, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 
==DYK [[Rus'for Khaganate]]VimpelCom Ltd.==
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== [[Dmitry of Uglich]] ==
I am preparing an article about this poorly-documented and -understood time in Russian history, for eventual migration into the main article space. I would like to make it as comprehensive as possible. Your comments and additions (including from sources critical of or in opposition to the theories presented so far) would be most welcome. In particular I would like to expound on the attitude of both Normanists and anti-Normanists to this issue. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 21:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Dammit, Andrey, I spent a long time yesterday fixing all the links to [[Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (born 1582)]], and now you've moved it again. I don't agree with moving it to that name (although I do see that ruwiki has it under that). I think [[Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (born 1582)]] is more descriptive, and fits with the other various sundry Tsareviches we have around here. Can we please move it back? -- <b>[[User:Y|Y]]&nbsp;[[User_talk:Y|not?]]</b> 15:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Moved the article to main space with your edits. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 03:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
* I'm afraid we cannot. His namesakes are just a footnote in genealogical compilations and cannot compete in importance with this key figure of Russian history. Check [[WP:TITLE]]: "Article titles and redirects should anticipate what readers will type as a first guess and balance that with what readers expect to be taken to. Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources". --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:57, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
**And is that in fact the most frequent name? I have no idea if it is or not... -- <b>[[User:Y|Y]]&nbsp;[[User_talk:Y|not?]]</b> 18:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 
==Yaroslavl==
I will continue to work on the article with you. I note with satisfaction that [[Sviatoslav I of Kiev]] is now a [[Wikipedia:Good Articles|Good article]]. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 14:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
A very funny edit summary on Yaroslavl; thanks for cheering me up :) Just out of curiosity, though&mdash;is there nothing else to see in your city except for the bloody churches?—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); June&nbsp;11, 2012; 12:09 (UTC)
* Most of other things are unavailable due to the lack of Freedom of Panorama.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 13:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
**I know. I was just pulling Ghirla's leg :) FOP issues aside, his fascination with quaint little churches is just too tempting of a target not to make fun of.—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); June&nbsp;11, 2012; 13:19 (UTC)
 
== [[Transfiguration Church in Kovalyovo]] ==
Some major overhauling last night. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 15:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 
When/if you have time, could you perhaps copyedit the article? It was [[Template:Did you know nominations/Transfiguration Church in Kovalyovo|nominated]] (not by me) for DYK, and there have been some questions concerning terminology of ecclesiastical architecture I can not answer properly. I also asked [[User:Peter I. Vardy|Peter I. Vardy]]. Thanks in advance.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 20:18, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
== Did You Know...? ==
* Огромное спасибо.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 05:28, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 
== Lubok ==
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|On [[15 October]], [[2006]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Yakov Bulgakov]]''''', which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know?" talk page]].
|} <!-- [[{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}]], [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]] --> [[User:SoLando|SoLando]] ([[User talk:SoLando|Talk]]) [[User:SoLando|SoLando]] 14:02, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Hi Ghirlandajo (nice username!), I added [[:File:1674 St. Alexis theater show programme, Kiev.jpg|the image]] because it was from a early date and it is in the commons category Lubok. Do you have any idea why it is in that category, and if it should be removed from it? [[User:Lotje|Lotje]] ([[User talk:Lotje|talk]]) 07:15, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
== 1956 венгерская революция ==
 
==Featuring your work on Wikipedia's front page: DYKs==
Здравствуйте Гирла,
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Будьте добрым, перечитайте нашу статью про [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|венгерскую революцию]]. Мы много работали над статьей, надеюсь что мы писали из "нейтральной перспективы". Думаете, что это лучше, чем прежде?
Кстати, извините за мой плохой русский.... [[User:K. Lastochka|K. Lastochka]] 15:09, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== DYK ==
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| Thank you for your recent articles, including [[Bobrok]], which I read with interest. When you create an extensive and well referenced article, you may want to have it featured on Wikipedia's main page in the [[Wikipedia:Did you know|Did You Know section]]. Articles included there will be read by thousands of our viewers. To do so, add your article to the list at [[T:TDYK]]. Let me know if you need help, <sub style="border:1px solid #228B22;padding:1px;">[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]]&#124;[[User talk:Piotrus|<span style="color:#7CFC00;background:#006400;"> reply here</span>]]</sub> 17:15, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
|'''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated. On [[October 16]], [[2006]], a fact from the article ''' [[Alexander_Kazembek_(Russian_orientalist)]]''', which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the [[Main Page]]. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know?" talk page]].
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|}'''[[User:Blnguyen]]''' <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[User talk:Blnguyen|BLabberiNg]] 05:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== О правке статьи "Михаил КеруЛЛарий" ==
==[[W. S. Gilbert]]==
I've spun off the Bibliography, as requested.
 
О Михаиле Керулларии. Уважаемый Ghirlandajo - текст мой. Использовал источники по истории христианской Церкви. Священнослужитель. Имею за плечами светское высшее образование, аспирантуру. Пожалуйста, откликнитесь. Предлагаю найти компромисс. С уважением, диакон Олег Котов.
==[[Iliaş of Moldavia]]==
Hi, and thanks for your kind words. I have since contributed [[Iliaş of Moldavia]], and please let me know if there is more I can help with: connections between Ukraine/Southern Russia/Belarus/Lithuania and Moldavia were frequent and interesting, but way too little gaps are bridged currently.
 
== [[Ivan Tarchanoff]] ==
It is interesting to note that, after blocking me, Greek users have not actually reverted the article, but gradually moved it to a spurious version that didn't just remove all mention of "Istanbul" (as if Phanariotes were around in the 15th century), but silently deleted a mention of obviously not all Phanariotes being Greeks (even though this leads to several self-contradictions in the text). The sheer amount of bullshit and truthiness accounted for my outburst (which should not have happened, but I shan't be apologizing to those editors). Oh, well (unfortunately, my native tongue's wikipedia is even worse currently, so I cannot be following your example...). [[User:Dahn|Dahn]] 12:53, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Hi there, thank you for {{diff|Ivan Tarkhanov (physiologist)|next|534157965|your help}}! --[[User:SU ltd.|SU ltd.]] ([[User talk:SU ltd.|talk]]) 19:12, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
==Re to your request==
These were not messages posted by me. I donot understand why I have to provide a translation. I'm not responsible for other people's writings.--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 13:12, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Madonna ==
:Then I'll re-edit there the answer you arbitrarily deleted here. By the way, in English language a person who is involved in "conspirational activities" is a conspirator.--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 13:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
* ''([[Talk:Madonna (art)#Requested Move: → Madonna |Discuss]])'' – '''[[Madonna (art)]] → {{no redirect|Madonna}}''' I am notifying you because you were involved in writing this article. [[User:Kauffner|Kauffner]] ([[User talk:Kauffner|talk]]) 11:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Ghirla. No hard feelings whatsoever. Indeed, Yanni was a little jumpy, but that has to do with you assuming his involvement in conspiracy. Some people just can't take such (even implied) accusations lightly. Yanni is a good contributor, and really one of the fair-est and NPOV-est Greek editors I've met ('''''I''''' am not! :-)). Let's get on with our business, shall we? (I see we have some mutual friends...) [[User:N!|<span style="color:#fff;background:#88b">•N<span style="background:#99c">i<span style="background:#aad">k<span style="background:#bbe">o<b><span style="background:#ccf">S</span>il</b></span><b>v</b></span><b>e</b></span><b>r</b>•</span>]] 16:19, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[Gostiny Dvor]] ==
::Apology accepted. I also apologize for the tone of my responses. Your comments on any of my articles are welcomed like the comments of all the wikipedians. Cheers!--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 18:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Hello, I was working on disambiguating the links to [[Gostiny Dvor]] when it became clear to me that it really could be a broad concept article. I checked the history and saw your [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gostiny_Dvor&diff=next&oldid=539240505 edit] where you changed it from an article to a disambiguation page. Rather than reverse your edit, I thought I'd check with you to get an explanation for your edit summary. What do you mean by "back to disambiguation, no need for forking"? Thanks, [[User:SchreiberBike|SchreiberBike]] ([[User talk:SchreiberBike|talk]]) 17:44, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
I am very glad you sorted this out guys! [[User:N!|<span style="color:#fff;background:#88b">•N<span style="background:#99c">i<span style="background:#aad">k<span style="background:#bbe">o<b><span style="background:#ccf">S</span>il</b></span><b>v</b></span><b>e</b></span><b>r</b>•</span>]] 20:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
:Please see [[Talk:Gostiny Dvor#Requested move]]. [[User:SchreiberBike|SchreiberBike]] ([[User talk:SchreiberBike|talk]]) 06:50, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 
== Navboxes on author pages ==
:Hmmm, I was waiting for the chance for you to understand what I meant 3 comments above... [[User:N!|<span style="color:#fff;background:#88b">•N<span style="background:#99c">i<span style="background:#aad">k<span style="background:#bbe">o<b><span style="background:#ccf">S</span>il</b></span><b>v</b></span><b>e</b></span><b>r</b>•</span>]] 13:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Since you are the leading registered editor in terms of edits at [[Nikolai Gogol]] and [[Leo_Tolstoy]], you might want to participate in the discussion at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#Derivative_works_and_cultural_references_templates]] regarding including navigation boxes for adaptations of and related subjects to an authors works on the author's bio page.--[[User:TonyTheTiger|TonyTheTiger]] <small>([[User talk:TonyTheTiger|T]]/[[Special:Contributions/TonyTheTiger|C]]/[[User:TonyTheTiger/Antonio Vernon|BIO]]/[[WP:CHICAGO]]/[[WP:FOUR]]) </small> 17:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
== Your message on my talk page ==
 
== Infoboxes arbitration case ==
''I think Cyde it is you who make things worse! [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 17:41, 15 October 2006 (UTC)''
 
I notice that you've added a comment yeserday to the Workshop page of the Infoboxes arbitration case [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Infoboxes/Workshop&diff=prev&oldid=568195284]. Per the header at the top of all the Infobox case pages the workshop closed on the 7th. I'm not an arbitration clark so I wont remove your addition myself, but it would be most polite if you would self-revert. The workshop talk page does remain open. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 12:21, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Cyde&diff=81627368&oldid=81626986 That is the only thing that I removed.]
 
== Ternopil castle ==
Secondly, no one ever stopped people from removing content from '''my''' user and talk page. Have a nice day. '''[[User:Fredil Yupigo|<font color="#4682B4">Fredil</font>]] [[User Talk:Fredil Yupigo|<font color="#FF6347">Yupi</font>]][[User:ILovePlankton/My loyalties to my friends|<font color="#FFDEAD">go</font>]] <sup>[[User:Fredil Yupigo/Rant|<font color="red">What has Wikipedia become</font>]]?</sup>''' 17:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 
You are a complete idiot, changing Krakow to Krakiv and Jan Tarnowski to Yan Tarnovsky. This castle was built by Poland to protect Poland. I do not know why such a chauvinistic moron is still tolerated here. [[User:Tymek|Tymek]] ([[User talk:Tymek|talk]]) 21:55, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
== DYK ==
Yeah, looks like Peta and Samir are busy atm. I need to go now and was hoping someone would hand out those things. If not, I'll come back tomorrow. Perhaps we need to badger someone to do the next shift. I need to go now. Thanks, '''[[User:Blnguyen|Blnguyen]]''' <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[User talk:Blnguyen|BLabberiNg]] 08:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== OldFAR East[[Rus' SlavicKhaganate]] ==
 
I have nominated [[Rus' Khaganate]] for a [[Wikipedia:Featured article review/Rus' Khaganate/archive1|featured article review here]]. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets [[Wikipedia:What is a featured article?|featured article criteria]]. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are [[Wikipedia:Featured article review|here]]. [[User:Chaosdruid|Chaosdruid]] ([[User talk:Chaosdruid|talk]]) 01:46, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
I responded on my talk page. [[User:Beit Or|Beit]] [[User talk:Beit Or|Or]] 09:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== Legionnaires' disease question ==
==???==
What are you doing dude? Here are our words from those days (you can find them in the talkpage):
 
Can you please explain why you reverted a perfectly proper merger of Legionnaires' disease [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Legionnaires%27_disease&diff=prev&oldid=591287622 here]? Especially as you've never edited the article, you failed to give any rationale whatsoever in your edit summary. Why did you revert the merger and then go off to Ymblanter and say I've created a content fork? The page was merged, Ymblanter has had to restore my merger. Please explain your 'edits.' Thanks. [[User:Malke 2010|Malke 2010]] ([[User talk:Malke 2010|talk]]) 20:48, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
Me: ''On that note, I will offer a compromise. Calling the battle a draw would be a serious disservice, so I propose that we simply say "Marginal French victory," having seen that first word in some other descriptions of battle results''.
 
==Agrippina, Countess von Zarnekau==
You: ''It's OK with me but I would like to know what other editors think''.
Hello, just letting you know I nominated an article you tagged as a hoax for deletion - [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Agrippina, Countess von Zarnekau]]. Regards. --[[User:Muchness|Muchness]] ([[User talk:Muchness|talk]]) 07:19, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 
== [[Vorontsov Palace (Alupka)]]==
This is a little surreal right now because you seem to be disputing that you agreed to this, when clearly you did. If you have now changed your mind, that is ''fine'', but you have to be clear if that's what's going on or if it's something else. Right now you're just confusing me.[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 15:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Can you please be so kind as to take a look at the above article, which I'm working on. I've found lots of errors in the Soviet era books on the palace, which I think/hope I am correcting - you may known better. I'm using an English book for the section on the owners, but I think it has a lot of death dates wrong because Wikipedia has articles (which you've worked on) on many of Shuvalovs of the same or very similar names, but the death dates don't quite correspond. I'm pretty sure they are the same people, but would like to you to check them out before I link to them from the article. Thanks. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 15:00, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
:Could you at least make an attempt to discuss in the talkpage why you want to start this issue up again? Let's have a moratorium on editing at "Nominal French victory" because that's what it used to read before this started (and had been for months).[[User:UberCryxic|UberCryxic]] 12:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
::I think this [[Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov]] may be the one who married Prince Vorontsov's daughter. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 15:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::: Nope. Vorontsov's son-in-law was [[:it:Andrej Pavlovič Šuvalov]] ([[:ru:Шувалов, Андрей Павлович]]), the owner of [[Pargolovo]]. My article [[:ru:Шуваловы]] has a family tree. An anglicized version is [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/russia/shuvalov.html here]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:35, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::::Thanks, I thought you would be the person to ask. I'll translate it from the Italian. I've just found this man [[Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov]]. Interestingly, despite his name, he only lived at the Vorontsov Palace because his wife inherited it - would he have owned it himself through her, or could married woman own property in Russia at that time? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 16:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
::::::: If Vorontsov-Dashkov had divorced his wife, she would have kept the estates inherited through her mother. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 11:46, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::That's interesting edit [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vorontsov_Palace_%28Alupka%29&diff=597646623&oldid=597645387], the book is very vague as to why that wing vam to named after the Shuvalovs. I wonder if she had separated from her husband - hence she used that as her country seat rather than one of her husband's. It's odd that with so many houses, the Suvalovs (together) would choose to share one with her brother. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 10:19, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::: I believe she lived separately from her dissolute husband with her children, the young Shuvalovs, from the 1850s onward. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::::That would explain why she and the children spent so much time at the Vorontsov property then - avoiding her husband. Is this the last private owner [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69523816]? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 10:37, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
::::::::: I'm not sure. His elder brother [http://feb-web.ru/feb/rosarc/pictures/RAI-16v.jpg Ivan Vorontsov-Dashkov] (1868-97) had a son, [http://feb-web.ru/feb/rosarc/pictures/RAI-20v.jpg Illarion Ivanovich] (1893-1920), who died from typhus in Novorossiysk. That guy probably would have inherited the palace after [http://feb-web.ru/feb/rosarc/pictures/RAI-11v.jpg his grandmother]'s death. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 10:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::You recent edits are all v interesting. I wonder how much of a dalliance the Princess had with Pushkin? Apparently she had Hunt (the architect) recreate "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray" in a courtyard at Alupka - an odd thing for a woman who claimed to rebuff him. I shall be writing that courtyard garden up in the grounds section tomorrow - it's all a fascinating subject that keeps leading to other interesting pages. I was thinking a single page on the 19th century palaces and castles of the Crimea would be good to do. I would quite like to do a trip there, probably though it's not currently the best holiday destination. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 20:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::: I bet :) There was probably nothing serious between the Countess and Pushkin, although this is a matter of some debate. He was motivated by vanity rather than a true feeling; and she spurned his advances. Poets were not highly regarded in the Russian aristocratic circles of the time. Pushkin was very young and held no official post, so there was a precipice between them. Some also found him physically repulsive. The Bakhchisaray poem was certainly a bestseller, but it did not become well known until after his departure from Odessa. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 22:41, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::::::::*How good are you on Islamic architecture? the Russian published sources say there are influences of [[Moorish architecture]], but the English published source, which I have been heavily using (and trust), say it's not not Moorish at all, but [[Mughal architecture]], and Mughal architecture when superimposed on European architecture appears Moorish, but isn't. Apparently in the 19hh century the palace was frequently referred to as [[The Alhambra]], but that was erroneous because Moorish and Mughal are quite different. As you know, I will fight any corner on European architecture, but I don't understand the finer points of Islamic and only have a rudimentary understanding of it - are you or [[User:DDima|DDima]] (who is the primary author and got the page to GA) any wiser than me? DDima and I discovered a few months ago that the old Soviet sources did contain some errors and wishful thinking. I think it is Mughal, but don't want to discredit a Russian source if you and DDima don't agree. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 19:07, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Giano, I know nothing about Islamic art. For older writers, "Moorish" was an umbrella term for all Islamic architectural influences, don't you think? [[:ru:Особняк Арсения Морозова|This building]] in Moscow is routinely described as Moorish Revival, for instance, although its models are Portuguese. I don't have any sources on the Crimean palaces at hand. A quick look at the Google Books found four Russian-language sources highlighting the Jama Masjid as the main inspiration for the southern facade. Some authors of guidebooks, unversed in the mysteries of architecture, repeat (in passim) that, apart from the Delhi mosque, Blore was inspired by "the palace of Muhammad I and Carlos I in Alhambra". They probably found this in some old book and so repeat without thinking. Never mind. The Lions' Terrace is not exactly the [[Court of the Lions]]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:51, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
* In the 1830s everyone read the ''[[Tales of the Alhambra]]'', and Pushkin based ''[[The Tale of the Golden Cockerel]]'' on one of Irving's stories. Alhambra was probably viewed as a generic term for any luxurious Moslem residence. The line "There is no God but Allah" supposedly appears 9000 times in the Nasrid palace. Perhaps these associations or some details of the interior led to the name "Alhambra" which was applied to the south part of the palace from 1844 onward. Filatova in her catalogue of the Vorontsovs' portrait gallery (Г. Г. Филатова. Портретная галерея Воронцовых. Volume 1. Alupka, 1997) claims that the southern palace of the palace was called Alhambra on account of the inscription. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:06, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
** Translated from the article Галиченко А.А. Воронцовский дворец в Алупке: новороссийский губернатор и английский архитектор // Пинакотека. - 2004. - № 18/19. - С. 26-31: "Elisabeth Vorontsov was fascinated by the Alhambra tales of Washington Irving and even undertook, in 1838, a journey to Spain to see the famed palace. She brought with her to Alupka the views of Alhambra interiors drawn by an Enlishman named Satu (Сату????) and Blore's design for the garden which was based on the [[Generalife]] gardens in Granada. It took several years and a help from soldiers to realize the Irving-influenced design in Alupka". --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:22, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
::::Well I see that well known architectural historian Winston Churchill calls it 'Moorish' - who am I to argue with him? I think the article should point out that the architecture is strictly speaking Moghul, but conveniently suited contemporary ideals of Moorish romance. Would you be happy with that? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 18:39, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
::::: Of course. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:50, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::Good. as you may know, I have not done at FAC for years; I rather fell out with the idea, but I think I would like to see this featured. However, I am not nominating it unless you are completely happy with it. You know this sort of stuff far better than I. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 20:34, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
:::::::: Giano, I don't think I ever took part in the FAC process, and I don't think I ever will, given my poor English and lack of interest in letter-worship and pedantry. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 22:37, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 
==March 2014==
==[[Zinaida Serebryakova]]==
[[Image:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]] Hello, I'm [[User:Clarinetguy097|Clarinetguy097]]. I noticed that you recently removed some content from [[:Novorossiysk]]&nbsp;without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate [[Help:Edit summary|edit summary]]. If this was a mistake, don't worry; I restored the removed content. If you would like to experiment, please use the [[WP:Sandbox|sandbox]]. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on [[User_talk:Clarinetguy097|my talk page]]. Thanks!<!-- Template:uw-delete1 --> [[User:Clarinetguy097|Clarinetguy097]] ([[User talk:Clarinetguy097|talk]]) 00:58, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Ghirla! I would appreciate your take on [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zinaida_Serebryakova&diff=82002945&oldid=80604090 this edit] and [[Talk:Zinaida Serebryakova|this discussion]]. Thanks!&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 15:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== ImagesKinzelyuk and articlesWaterfall ==
 
Hi! I'm [[User: ChromaNebula|<span style="color:red">C</span><span style="color:orange">h</span><span style="color:yellow">r</span><span style="color:green">o</span><span style="color:blue">m</span><span style="color:purple">a</span><span style="color:silver">Nebula</span>]] [[User talk: ChromaNebula|<span style="color:gold">(talk)</span>]] , and I happened to notice the article [[Kinzelyuk Waterfall]] as I was patrolling Recent Changes. I understand that you reverted my addition of a {{citation needed}} tag. I did not mean to confuse or offend you. On the contrary, I was confused by the claim that it was "probably" the highest waterfall in Russia, and thought the source cited referred to the Talnikovy Waterfall (I was mistaken). Another thing I noticed about the article is that most of the links to other geographical features in that area are red links. Could you consider possibly creating those pages (as I can't read the Russian sources)? [[User: ChromaNebula|<span style="color:red">C</span><span style="color:orange">h</span><span style="color:yellow">r</span><span style="color:green">o</span><span style="color:blue">m</span><span style="color:purple">a</span><span style="color:silver">Nebula</span>]] [[User talk: ChromaNebula|<span style="color:gold">(talk)</span>]] 16:25, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Привет Ghirlandajo, I noticed your post at the architecture portal a couple days ago about the drawings in [[Fischer von Erlach]], I agree, they are very fine indeed and so is the article. I also noticed your humility in crediting [[Vyborg Library]] to TTKK. That was very kind of you since you wrote most of it ;-) I have seen good things from TTKK so far, so any encouragement is of course also good. While I am here with compliments, I would also like to ask a favor, which is to see if you could take a look through [[:Category:Images with unknown copyright status as of 14 October 2006|these]] [[:Category:Images with unknown copyright status as of 15 October 2006|two]] categories and save anything that should be kept. These cats get deleted after seven days, and I don't want anything to get deleted that shouldn't be. Спасибо, [[User:DVD R W| DVD]]+[[User_talk:DVD R W| R/W]] 18:48, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
* Hello. Normally I'm tempted to write an English geo-stub only when I see a whopping number of interwiki links (e.g., [[Kureika River]]). I don't think the American public cares about the mountains or rivers of Russia, even if the mountains and rivers are really huge. So it's not worth wasting my time. Especially since the stubs here are quickly disfigured by ugly infoboxes or by [[User:Ezhiki]]'s nasty activities. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:02, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
:I retagged three images as fairuse. I have no problem if others are deleted. We have free replacements in most cases. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 06:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
**A wonderful day to you too, Ghirla! :)—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">March 21, 2014</span>; 18:24 (UTC)
 
== Olga of Kiev Edit ==
==[[Prinias]]==
Hi. Why did you remove the sentence I added to the [[Olga of Kiev]] article (about [[Bat bomb]]s)? [[User:Fi11222|Fi11222]] ([[User talk:Fi11222|talk]]) 05:23, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Goal!! Excellent recovery of my fumble, Andrey!--[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] 18:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
* Because the comparison qualifies as [[:WP:NOR|original research]]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:22, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
 
== Your DYK nomination of Pastila ==
== Thank you ==
 
[[Image:Symbol question.svg|25px]] Hello! Your submission of [[Pastila]] at the [[Template talk:DYK|Did You Know nominations page]] has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath '''[[Template:Did you know nominations/Pastila|your nomination's entry]]''' and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! <!--Template:DYKproblem--> [[User:Mandarax|<span style="color:green">M<small>AN</small>d<small>ARAX</small></span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:blue">•</span>&nbsp;[[User talk:Mandarax|<span style="color:#999900"><small>XAЯA</small>b<small>ИA</small>M</span>]] 00:37, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Ghirla, you ''were'' the first to support me when you suggested we collaborate on [[Nadezhda Durova]]. I've learned a great deal from the examples you've set as an editor. My administratorship candidacy succeeded with a final tally of 81/0/1. It's always been a pleasure to interact with you. Results are at [[Wikipedia:Recently_created_admins#Durova]]. Warmly, '''[[User:Durova|<font color="blue">Durova</font>]]''' 21:34, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 
*Ghirlandajo, it has been eleven days since the above was posted, and no action has been taken at the nomination or on the article. You have been active on Wikipedia in the interim, so please give your attention here as soon as possible. One week is the standard response time; in this case, if there isn't something in the next couple of days, the nomination will likely be marked for closure. Hope to see you posting soon! [[User:BlueMoonset|BlueMoonset]] ([[User talk:BlueMoonset|talk]]) 07:29, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
== Thank you ==
Hello, Ghirla, thank you for support and advices. I really impressed with quality of Wikipedia's history articles and would like to participate in project. [[User:Ioakinf|Ioakinf]] 11:41, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 
:*You will need to do a quid pro quo (QPQ) review of another nomination for your own to be approved. If you need help finding resources for DYK reviewing, there are the [[WP:DYK|rules]], [[WP:DYKSG|supplemental rules]] (which explain them in greater detail), and the [[WP:DYKR|reviewing guide]]. [[User:BlueMoonset|BlueMoonset]] ([[User talk:BlueMoonset|talk]]) 22:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
==Thank you==
Thank you for informing me about this problem. I left a message in [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject History of Greece]] and in [[Talk:Iraklion Archaeological Museum]], where I decided to throw a poll. I donot know how these things are done - my only experience is with [[Talk:Ephialtes]]. Your advice, your vote and any assistance are welcomed. For instance, I don't know if this is the right thing to do or if I'm in a hurry or if I should inform an administrator. Please feel free to comment or to make any modifications you wish in my initiative in [[Talk:Iraklion Archaeological Museum]]. Once again thank you!
 
==Wikilinking==
And by the way, if you are interested in any topics related directly or indirectly with the Greek history, you are of course welcomed to participate in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Greece]].--[[User:Yannismarou|Yannismarou]] 14:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia.
 
I noticed [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Konstantin_Vanshenkin&diff=603713424&oldid=603561023 an article] you worked on. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:
==Treniota and Svarn==
*dates
*years
*commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
*common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).
 
(This even applies to infoboxes.)
Hi, I see you have moved geneologies to talk pages, theoretically you are absolutely right, but bare in mind that if we remove all unsourced statements from Wiki - probably 80 % of it will be gone. In some cases we have little choice but assume good faith. You know, it might be quite difficult (if not impossible) to find on-line sources on this particular subject.[[User:Encyclopaedia Editing Dude|Encyclopaedia Editing Dude]] 18:08, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:I have to agree on deleting Treniota's family as it's probably a mix of [[Palemonids]] fantasies with wild rumors and guesses. All the early dukes need their family relations to be pruned, checked and verified. And as to Svarn, I believe his family was (more of less) correct. [[User:Renata3|Renata]] 18:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
::As long as [[WP:NOT]] warns us that Wikipedia is not a genealogical reference, I object to pasting unsourced genealogies into the articles. I do not have time to remove them from all articles in the Lithuanian-Belarusian segment; [[Svarn]] and [[Treniota]] were two accidental victims of my zeal. Svarn's genealogy, in particular, was taken from an off-wiki source painstakingly prepared by myself, with all personal and place names "translated" into Polish. This has been discussed at length before in connection to [[Trubetskoy]], where my off-wiki work was ridiculously distorted to suit pro-Polish POV. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 18:57, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Well, even with current miserable state of family relations those sections are ''extremely'' useful. I have been going through some of them, fixing spellings, formating, etc. I think we should try to clean them up (they are worth it). Do you have any handy reference books on the matter? [[User:Renata3|Renata]] 02:58, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
:::BTW, what's the real name of [[Svarn]]? Švarn? Shvarn? Shvarno? smth else? [[User:Renata3|Renata]] 05:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
::::I fixed the names. Shvarn's name is a mistery: not Slavic and not recorded in countries other than Rus. The theory that his mother was a Lithuanian does not hold water. Generally speaking, the onomastics in Danylo's family are very untypical for the house of Rurik. The proliferation of Greek names (Daniel/Danylo, Leo/Lev, Heraclius/Irakly) is usually explained by the Greek extraction of Danylo's mother (which is not proven). Furthermore, there is a possibility of some Georgian connection: [[Vsevolod III]]'s wife, an Ossetian, is called the daughter of a certain Shvarn. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 06:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
:::::Should he be moved to Shvarn? [[User:Renata3|Renata]] 11:33, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Thanks, and my best wishes.
== Check ==
 
[[User:Tony1|<span style="color:darkgreen;">'''Tony'''</span>]] [[User talk:Tony1|<span style="color:darkgreen;">(talk) </span>]] 07:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Khoikhoi's RfA. You are being attacked with personal insults. --anon
 
== Nice to see you... ==
:Best to ignore, Ghirlandajo. I never accept anonymous calls myself. --[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] 03:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 
...around again, and indeed to see two people adding to [[Nikolay Veselovsky]] in the same week! I've been poking around [[Steppes art]] a bit, I don't know if this is an area that interests you? I've said in the past that [[Middle Ages]] could do with some additions on Central/East European matters but I don't think we should add that the Bulgarians invented the Renaissance, as they all apparently learn on their mothers' knee. [[User:Johnbod|Johnbod]] ([[User talk:Johnbod|talk]]) 15:47, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
== DYK ==
* Nice to see you too, Johnbod. The Boyana claim is ludicrous, yet the wider Orthodox culture was essential for the Middle Ages. This aspect is sorely underrepresented in the article (judging by the illustrations, at least). --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 12:05, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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** Steppes art is fascinating, but I don't have time for it at the moment. There are too many artifacts that require articles in this language edition of Wikipedia. The [[:de:Pasyryk-Teppich|Pazyryk carpet]] immediately springs to mind. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 12:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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|[[Image:Updated DYK query.png|Updated DYK query]]
|'''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated. On [[October 17]], [[2006]], a fact from the article '''[[Viipuri Municipal Library]]''', which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the [[Main Page]]. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know?" talk page]].
|}'''[[User:Blnguyen|Blnguyen]]''' <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[User talk:Blnguyen|BLabberiNg]] 01:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
== Primary Chronicle==
Any chance to get from somewere the illuminations from the medieval manuscript and to put them ont the commons?
[[User:CristianChirita|CristianChirita]] 07:35, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
:What makes you think that the [[Hypatian Codex]] was illuminated? I can't find it in the [[List of illuminated manuscripts]]. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 08:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I've the confusion that [[Radziwiłł Chronicle]] has text form the primary chronicle.[[User:CristianChirita|CristianChirita]] 08:26, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[Template:Did you know nominations/Pastila]] — final call for QPQ ==
== Wars ==
Not unexplained, it was typography: I had followed [[Dash#En_dash]] mistakenly. Will take some time to correct. To sum it up, use – to separate dates, but not country names in war names.
 
Ghirlandajo, this is a final call for you to provide the required quid pro quo review of another DYK nomination, a requirement for your own nomination above to be approved. If we don't hear from you in the next couple of days, we will regretfully have to close your nomination as unsuccessful. I hope you will stop by and post at your nomination, which is linked above. Thank you very much. [[User:BlueMoonset|BlueMoonset]] ([[User talk:BlueMoonset|talk]]) 19:00, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
-- <br />
* As you may see from my user page, I was the first wikipedian to receive a DYK medal and the 200 DYK medal and, in the words of the then arb YellowMonkey, used to be the "driving force of DYK" from 2005 on. After spending so much time and effort on DYK, I find the latest requirements to review still more DYK nominations unfair and discouraging. If DYK does not care about its patriarchs, you'd better close the nom. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 16:33, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
[[User:Leandrod|Leandro GFC Dutra]] 17:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==Is this genuine?==
: One thing is the indifferentiated hyphen-minus, ‘-’; quite another is the en dash, ‘–’ (&ndash;). For war names, the correct form is country-country war (year–year), with an hyphen-minus separating country names and the en dash separating years. I had mistakenly read the guide above and thus had separated the country names with an en dash, and am reverting now, but it will taken some time as I am in no leisure now.
 
I've just stumbled upon this page: [[Princess Natalia Romanovskaya-Iskander]]. Is it genuine or a hoax? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 20:44, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
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* Apparently genuine, though the prose is excessively florid. Her stepson [[:ru:Досталь, Владимир Николаевич|Vladimir Dostal]] is a well-known film director in Russia. Another stepson was the CEO of the [[Mosfilm]] studio. [[Eleonora Nikolaievna Dostal-Oruç]] certainly lacks notability for a Wikipedia article. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:44, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
:[[User:Leandrod|Leandro GFC Dutra]] 13:23, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
*: I think I agree with this. Should we nominate the article for deletion?--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 07:51, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*:: I think we should. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 09:11, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*::: Good, I will do it later today.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 09:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
*::: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleonora Nikolaievna Dostal-Oruç]]--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 14:14, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
:::::::I was just checking that she existed. I know the Romanovs fell on hard times, but I never knew they had to resort to being trick cyclists - just shows how resourceful good breeding can make one. Icidentally, I just looked at the Stroganoff Palace, "''This chain of ownership was preserved until 1919 when the last Count Sergei Stroganov sold his rights to the entail''" I would love to know how much his rights were worth at that time. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 19:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
 
== DYKBolding ==
 
The bold conflicts were more historically important or more successful in the achievement of their goals.[[User:Catlemur|Catlemur]] ([[User talk:Catlemur|talk]]) 15:28, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
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* Who decides which conflicts are important and which are not? There is no way a rebellion that spread over the territory roughly the size of Western Europe is less important than events in Bulgaria. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 08:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
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|[[Image:Updated DYK query.png|Updated DYK query]]
|'''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' was updated. On [[19 October]], [[2006]], a fact from the article '''[[Rus' Khaganate]]''', which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the [[Main Page]]. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|"Did you know?" talk page]].
|} --[[User:Andrew Levine|Andrew Levine]] 19:55, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==CPSU Central Committee members==
This might seem like a strange question, since its something I should probably do myself, but since I can't speak or understand Russian its a bit difficult. Even so, do you know anyone who would be interested in creating articles on the 28th different Central Committee (a list of their members, similar to [[18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China]]). I have [http://www.knowbysight.info/2_KPSS/07178.asp a list], found it by using Google Translate, but as you may understand, the translation services falters from time to time very seriously, which makes it all but impossible in certain cases to know who is actually who. I'm not saying you should do this, but do you know anyone on Wikipedia interested in making such a list? That we don't have a list on this topic says a lot about WPs covering of Soviet, and Russian history. --[[User:Trust Is All You Need|TIAYN]] ([[User talk:Trust Is All You Need|talk]]) 07:45, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
: I can make some of the list but would you please create some appropriate redlinks first? I generally do not like creating orphans.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 09:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 
==DYK for Stripped Classisim?==
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[[Stripped Classicism]] is a brand new article. If we can work together to make it long enough (I need your help), I would be pleased to nominate it for a [[WP:DYK]], and list all the contributors as creators. <span style="text-shadow:#396 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; class=texhtml">[[User:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#060">7&amp;6=thirteen</b>]] ([[User talk:7&amp;6=thirteen|<b style="color:#000">☎</b>]])</span> 15:04, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hello! You thanked me for my article about the [[katholikon of the Antoniev Monastery]] in Novgorod, so I checked your page and figured it out that you seem to be a guru of Wikipedia in this field. I have actually just created an article about [[Desyatinny Monastery]], so, it will be a compliment for me if you would find it curious enough to check ;) Take care! --[[User:Sterndmitri|Sterndmitri]] ([[User talk:Sterndmitri|talk]]) 21:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
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I'm going to stick a citation needed template on the reference to Sfengus for now per your request for a source. I don't, unfortunately, have the Greek version of Skylitzes available. I will track down the reference through secondary sources ASAP. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 17:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Precious ==
== Second Battle of Polotsk article is now done...it needs to be added to the 1812 invasion campaign box ==
 
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'''core goal of the project'''<br />
Thank you, veteran productive editor in English and Russian, for a wealth of quality articles written, substantially revised and edited, often in collaboration, such as [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]] and [[Stripped Classicism]], for "being a driving force of DYK, and for adhering to the core goal of the project", - you are an [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious|awesome Wikipedian]]!
 
--[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 12:21, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
I have started a Second Battle of Polotsk article...footnotes and more polishing will be added later. In the meantime, could you add it to the 1812 Russian invasion campaignbox? I don't know how to do that.
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Thanks.
[[File:Невский 86.jpg|thumb|The Petrovo-Solovovo House]]
[[User:Kenmore|Kenmore]] 17:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)kenmore
[[File:Kurakin Palace.jpg|thumb|The Kurakin palace in the 1880s...]]
[[File:Moscow, Staraya Basmannaya 21, k4 (winter 2011) by shakko .jpg|thumb|...the same townhouse after a horrible "renovation" undertaken in the late 19th century]]
I have just returned from your very impressive country with lots of photos, but I see most of the places I've visited have already very good articles already - most of them with your name n the history!. However, one building caught my attention which does not. Maybe because I've had to research the internet to even find out what it is/was. It seems to be a a lesser known Yusupoff Palace on the Nevsky Prospect. Google "''Number 86, The 'Actors House' & a former home of Princess Tatiana Vassillievna Yusupova.''" It's a real neoclassical building with lots of bass relief, and I have photographed it from both angles and will upload tomorrow or later tonight. There seems to be little info available in English at least, but I'll start a page and see of it grows. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 18:52, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
: We have a dedicated Commons category for this building [[:commons:Category:Nevskiy 86]] but apparently no article.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 18:59, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::Oh! I thought I had discovered a building that no one had noticed. Well [[:File:Nevskiy 86(2).JPG|my efforts]] now I have looked at them are all lopsided (that's the best) - is there anything much known about it? Perhaps on a Russian language website. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 20:46, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
::: Please upload your photos by any means. It should be known smth about the building, I will try to se whether there are any sources easily available.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 21:13, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Giano, you chose the worst time of the year to visit the country! In March, the weather must be atrocious. This building caught my attention last year so I decided to upload a vintage photo (''to the right'') from [http://walkspb.ru/zd/nevskiy86.html this website] which contains some info about the palace. It was built by Colonel Fyodor Petrovo-Solovovo in the early 1800s ([[:ru:Петрово-Соловово, Григорий Фёдорович]] was his son). In 1835, Count [[Władysław Grzegorz Branicki]] commissioned Gasparo Fossati, a Swiss-born architect, to have it remodeled. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 22:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:We actually have [[Fossati brothers]]--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 22:14, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:: Now we have a curious connection with Constantinople! By the way, a previous building on the site belonged to Prince Kurakin who had several other Neoclassical palaces in a similar vein. I happened to upload a picture of his Moscow residence last week (see another picture to the right). --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 22:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
:::Actually Ghirla, the weather was very good if a little cold - mostly blue skies! I will start a page later today, it can be a stub and we will see what happens. Is it your opinion that it was not a Yousupoff Palace? I'll call the page [[Nevsky Prospect 86]] - it can always be changed. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 09:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
:::: When the snow is gone, tons of garbage appear on Russian streets. Sightseeing is best after the week of April [[subbotnik]]s :) As for the Petrovo-Solovovo House, [http://www.citywalls.ru/house1162.html this page] contains more information. In the late 19th century, the building belonged to Princess Tatiana Yusupova, the wife of [[:ru:Юсупов, Николай Борисович (младший)|the last Prince Yusupov]] and the mother of Princess [[Zinaida Yusupova]]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 16:08, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::I always like to see places before the tourists arrive. I even love Venice best in the winter. Two things struck me hugely about St Pete's - one as the cleanliness of the streets, and the other was the amount of people using the churches for religious purposes; I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it everything was far more impressive than I expected it to be. I expect that was not the real Russia, but it was the nearest I'm likely to get to it. I ate my breakfast every morning staring at the Petrovo-Solovovo House across the street, which is a pretty nice way to start the day, and what made me curious about it. I'll expand the page a little over the next few days. can you keep an eye on it - my Russian translation is decidedly dodgy at the best of times. <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 20:24, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::*PS: Years ago, when I was a child, I was told a story about another Princess Zinaida Yusupova who died sometime in the 19th century aged 100. After the revolution, when the new owners were knocking her house about, they found a walled up skeleton of one of her lovers - have you ever heard this story, of have I misremembered and confused something else? <span style="text-shadow:grey 0.2em 0.2em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Giano|<span style="color:blue;">Giano</span>]]</span> [[User talk:Giano|'''(talk)''']] 20:28, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::: The building is listed as both Petrovo-Solovovo House and Zinaida Yusupova House. We can rename the article in one of these names (I do not hold a strong opinion on this).--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 11:46, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
 
== Обсуждение в Рувики ==
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Уважаемый коллега, обращаю Ваше внимание на [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2#.D0.98.D0.BD.D0.B8.D1.86.D0.B8.D0.B0.D1.82.D0.B8.D0.B2.D0.B0_.D0.BE.D1.82_Deinocheirus это обсуждение]. Возможно, Вам ст''о''ит принять в нём участие. --[[User:Humanitarian&#38;|Humanitarian&#38;]] ([[User talk:Humanitarian&#38;|talk]]) 12:35, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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* Посмотрел. Энтузиасты скайпочатов, как и предсказывалось, уже закрыли все обсуждения происходящего, прикрикивая: "Здесь не место! Обсуждать нечего!" Видимо, осмысленно обсуждать что-либо выходящее за рамки рутины разрешено теперь только офф-вики :( Очистить лог от кляксы было бы шагом к выходу из кризиса, но это сделать можно и без моего участия. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 19:02, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
:* Дал ссылку на Ваш ответ. --[[User:Humanitarian&#38;|Humanitarian&#38;]] ([[User talk:Humanitarian&#38;|talk]]) 20:56, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
:* P. S. Вы, однако, не совсем правы относительно закрытия темы; похоже, что это было сделано из каких-то иных побуждений: [https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%3A%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2&diff=70358128&oldid=70357879]... --[[User:Humanitarian&#38;|Humanitarian&#38;]] ([[User talk:Humanitarian&#38;|talk]]) 21:16, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
* Пожалуйста, будьте выше [https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Википедия:Форум/Вниманию_участников&diff=prev&oldid=70354529 мелких личностей], пытающихся пиариться на фоне грандов проекта. Основная масса участников прекрасно понимает, чья роль важнее, и никогда не подаст руки этим геростратам. Просто исключите таких и им подобных из поля своего внимания и продолжайте работать. Плохой участковый - еще не повод менять квартиру. И не забывайте, что вы в ответе за [[:ru:user:Люба_КБ|тех]], кого приручили. --[[Special:Contributions/213.87.138.136|213.87.138.136]] ([[User talk:213.87.138.136|talk]]) 04:57, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
* Кляксы больше нет! Возвращайтесь! Без Вас неуютно в проекте...--[[User:DarDar|DarDar]] ([[User talk:DarDar|talk]]) 11:56, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 
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How do I start fresh Wikipedia articles? I have articles prepared on the battles of Viazma (11/3/1812), Smoliani (11/14/1812), and Tschasniki (10/31/1812).
 
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Please move again [[Royal Palace of Valencia]] to [[Real Palace]]. If you had read the article, you would have noticed that, in this case, ''[[Real (residence)|real]]'' ≠ royal. The palace name arises from the fact that it was an almunia or [[Real (residence)|real]] (from Arabic riyad, garden), not because it was a royal residence.
==Borodino and other 1812 battlefield pictures==
 
That's why the name of the palace in Spanish is ''Palacio del Real'' and not ''Palacio Real'', or in Valencian ''Palau del Real'' instead of ''Palau Reial''.
Ghirla:
 
[[User:SPZ|SPZ]] ([[User talk:SPZ|talk]]) 02:42, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
In response to your questions about the pictures you've uploaded for the 1812 battle articles, they are quite good. The photographs of battlefield monuments are excellent. What would also be good is if we could find any modern photographs of the battlefields themselves, so people reading the article can better visualize what was happening there in 1812.
 
== Alan genetics ==
Are you familiar with the "American Heritage" history books published here in the United States? They are history books on the American Revolution, American Civil War, etc., which use both historical paintings and modern photographs in their publications. The artistic -- or imaginative effect -- on the reader is excellent, because the juxtaposition of the modern and historical pictures compounds the sense in the reader of what the battles and events must have been like.
 
Hi Ghirlandajo. Could you verify the [[Russian language|Russian]]-language source used at [[Alans#Genetics]]? [[User:Krakkos|Krakkos]] ([[User talk:Krakkos|talk]]) 21:32, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
I also liked the photograph of the Paskevich Palace in the Paskevich article...it conveys to the read the magisterial splendor that these aristocratic generals must have lived in. Photos like that compliment the sense of history our articles should induce in the reader.
 
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== Just a question ==
I would also like to start putting West Point's 1812 Russian invasion military maps on my articles...those maps are the absolute best, here in the West, for showing what was happening in Russia on monthly intervals during Napoleon's invasion. The maps show how the strategic situation was impacted by the battle at hand.
 
Hello! Just so I will understand things correctly: Why do you think the "Gallery" heading at [[Furillen]] is inappropriate, but not the pictures? Articles describing places usually have a some pictures from the place and most of these pictures have a Gallery heading. Cheers, [[User:W.carter|<em style="font-family:Verdana;color:DarkBlue">w.carter</em>]]<small>[[User talk:W.carter|'''<em style="font-family:Verdana;color:DarkBlue">-Talk</em>''']]</small> 12:01, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
The problem however is that the maps are so huge that the viewer must be able to use the "zoom" tool in Windows in order to get a meaningful view of the map.
* Sorry, the title is useless clutter. Please check [[WP:Gallery]]: "If a gallery would only lend itself to a title along the lines of "Gallery" or "Images of [insert article title]", as opposed to a more descriptive title, the gallery should either be revamped or moved to the Commons." --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 16:35, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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== Deletions in Kievan Rus' Article ==
'''The Russian Campaign'''
'''46. Eastern Europe, 1 June - 1 July 1812'''
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2046.htm
 
Hello, you recently deleted an image in the article [[Kievan Rus']] without giving any reason:
'''47. Eastern Europe, 1 July - 24 July 1812'''
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alex_K_Kievan_Rus..svg
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2047.htm
 
English: Coat of arms of the Kievan Rus 10th-11th c.
'''48. Eastern Europe, 24 July - 14 August 1812'''
Русский: Эмблема Киевской Руси 10-11 ст.
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2048.htm
Українська: Емблема Київської Русі 10-11 ст.
 
As you can see in the link, the image that was added as well as its description were all referenced by simply clicking on the image itself. This image is the appropriate image for the article [[Kievan Rus']], was fully referenced, and did not need to be deleted.
'''49. Eastern Europe, 27 August 1812'''
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2049.htm
 
In addition, you also made some changes which re-order Russia to appear before Ukraine in multiple places in the article. This would be strange to users, as Kiev is in Ukraine and not Russia. Although Muscovy subsequently renamed itself to Russia in the 18th century in order to adopt the history of Kievan Rus', and Ukraine later renamed itself from Ruthenia to Ukraine, Russia should not appear before Ukraine simply because the current name of Muscovy is similar to Rus', especially given the circumstances of the name change.
'''50. Eastern Europe, October 1812'''
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2050.htm
 
== Cossacks in Ukraine ==
'''51. Eastern Europe, 18 October - 5 December 1812'''
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2051.htm
 
Please see proposed merger to a category that you created, at [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_29#Category:Cossacks_in_Ukraine]]. – [[User:Fayenatic london|Fayenatic]] '''[[Special:Contributions/Fayenatic london|<span style="color:#FF0000;">L</span>]]'''[[User talk:Fayenatic london|ondon]] 07:08, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
'''52. Germany, 1813'''
http://www.dean.usma.edu/HISTORY/web03/atlases/napoleon/napoleon%20pages/napoleon%20map%2052.htm
 
== [[Russian wooden architecture]] ==
==Gogol and русские люди==
[[Image:Gogol LOC.jpg|thumb|50px]]
Would you think that this PD image I uploaded would be better as the main one for the Gogol's article? --[[User:Irpen|Irpen]] 03:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
:There are many more images to choose from at [http://gogol.boom.ru/portret/portret.htm gogol.boom.ru]. I still prefer Muller's portrait. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 16:19, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 
I [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_wooden_architecture&action=history was planning] to make an initial stub into this ridiculously missing topic, but then remembered your interests and hereby I offer you the honors to lay the cornerstone. -M.Altenmann [[user talk:Altenmann|>'''t''']] 20:34, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
== Egipetmost ==
 
== Rus'ka Pravda ==
Hi Ghirlandajo, sorry to bring this up again since you just removed a comment about it from here, but I've moved this image [[:Image:Egipetmost.jpg]] to the Commons as [[:Commons:Image:Egipetmost.jpg]]. Can you add anything there to the file about where you found it, and who drew it? If you really think it should be deleted then ok, but I think it has historical value and can be used to illustrate an interesting article [[Egyptian Bridge]] (nice job writing that by the way). Also, I started [[Portal:Architecture/New article announcements]] inspired by the one at Portal:Russia, so when you write (or find) any new architecture ones please add them there. Regards, [[User:DVD R W| DVD]]+[[User_talk:DVD R W| R/W]] 17:57, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Ukrainian scientist say so.[http://esnuir.eenu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/1902] So, please, remember укр. '''Руська''', рос. Русская. --[[User:Бучач-Львів|Бучач-Львів]] ([[User talk:Бучач-Львів|talk]]) 07:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 
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Thanks for the message. You might be interested in the article on [[Petrovskoye-Alabino]]. There is a rich seam of grand Russian houses still lying in ruins... [[User:Theramin|Theramin]] ([[User talk:Theramin|talk]]) 01:00, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
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==Fyodorov==
Can we find a free image of the staircase from somewhere? I just gave the page some attention because I don't see how [[Neo-Renaissance]] can improve if Renaissance is so bad, it#s the a horse before the carriage sort of thing. I have just found out that I will be in Firenze for a while in April so will take some specifically detailed architectural detail and motif fotos , but tyat is 5 months away so the page has to be improved before then. I'm expecting the template police there any moment :-)[[User:Giano II|Giano]] 12:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
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== Перевёл бы ==
==[[Pierre Rossier]]==
Hi, since you commented in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Pierre_Rossier FAC discussion for this article], further changes have been made to the article and I was wondering if you would now consider supporting its candidature. The article has been a FAC for three weeks now and there have been no comments or votes for some time. Thanks for your thoughts. [[User:Pinkville|Pinkville]] 01:09, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Привет. Лучше вместо [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Privolzhskaya_Railway&type=revision&diff=683317212&oldid=683316157 скрытия] доперевёл бы и всё. --[[User:Zimin.V.G.|Zimin.V.G.]] ([[User talk:Zimin.V.G.|talk]]) 06:34, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
==[[Izmail]]==
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I really cannot understand your edits in the text, First of all, it is already mentioned in the text that it is part of Bessarabia. Secondly, when Izmail was returned to Moldavia, the country ''was not'' "controlled by the Ottoman Empire", but occupied by Austria after it had been controlled by Russia for twenty years (see [[Regulamentul Organic]]); also, you have deleted the accurate information that, between 1856 and 1878, Izmail was part of the United Principalities (and not "of Moldavia"). The "it has a new master in independent Ukraine" is just gruesomly POV in comparison with the simple statent of facts it replaced. The "was occupied by the Kingdom of Romania" may be ok for 1940 to 1941, but it is, frankly, inane in reference to 1918-1940 (note that I have avoided using the term for any change in sovereignty). Please, state your reasons clearly on my talk page or the article's. [[User:Dahn|Dahn]] 07:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
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I was impressed by your knowledge and want to invite you to the new [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Russian and Soviet military history task force]]. I think they can benefit from you.
 
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:Please be certain to include me in the Russian/Soviet Military history taskforce...I'm well readon the subject and I'm eager to participate in the taskforce's activities. Thanks.
 
== [[Nikolai Sychov]] ==
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А зачем переименовали? еще как минимум два человека с таким именем есть, см. [[:ru:Сычёв]]. --&nbsp;[[User:deerstop|deerstop (*•̀ᴗ•́*)]]. 10:59, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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* Велика вероятность, что в ближайшие 100 лет статей на английском о них не появится. Когда появятся, будем думать о внесении уточнения в заголовок. Сейчас это излишне. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 11:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
** Оптимистично вы в будущее смотрите.) Ну окей. --&nbsp;[[User:deerstop|deerstop (*•̀ᴗ•́*)]]. 11:27, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hi there. I saw you engage in some questionable categorization activities, e.g., packing Georgians or Poles into Category:Russian historians. This approach is not helpful. Please take care, Ghirla -трёп- 15:24, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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Dear Ghirlandajo, in [[List of Russians]] you can read:
 
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This is a list of people associated with Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russia of today. For a long time Russia has been a multinational country, and many people of different nationalities contributed to its culture, to its glory, and to its sorrow. They may be ethnic Ukrainians (like Nikolai Gogol), Georgians (like Stalin and Georgi Daneliya), Belarusians (like Kazimir Malevich), Tatars (like Rudolf Nureyev), Azerbaijanis (like Kerim Kerimov and Uzeyir Hajibeyov), Jews (like Trotsky and Maya Plisetskaya), Poles (like Vaslav Nijinsky), Armenians (like Aram Katchaturian), Germans (like Catherine the Great), Danish (like Vitus Bering and Vladimir Dal), Italians (like Karl Briullov), Greeks (like John Capodistria), Romanians (like Mikhail Kheraskov), Frenchmen (like Marius Petipa), Dutchmen (like Sergius Witte), Portuguese (like Anton de Vieira), or, naturally, ethnic Russians. Sometimes we don't know their exact ancestry. Sometimes their formal nationality was written down at random or for political or other reasons. They may have emigrated or immigrated, and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names are linked to the words "Russia", "Russian".
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SO, I DO NOT THINK I HAVE MADE ANY MISTAKE. OTHERWISE THE [[List of Russians]] SHOULD BE CHANGED
 
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Thank you for expressing an interest in my recent [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka|RfA]]. As a followup, I wanted to let you know that unfortunately consensus was not reached, and the nomination was not successful. However, I do appreciate that you took the time to monitor the discussion as a neutral participant, and I paid close attention to your thoughts, as I find it a valuable thing to understand how I am perceived by others in the Wikipedia community. My current plans are to continue contributing in a positive manner to Wikipedia, and if there is anything that I can do in the future to help further address your concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. --[[User:Elonka|Elonka]] 10:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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==Jogaila==
 
== FYI ==
Sorry for bothering, but I'll be interested what Wiki rules are saying about such poll campaign. Does any rule give any evaluation of such behavior?
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:George_II_of_Great_Britain&diff=prev&oldid=83600435] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom&diff=prev&oldid=83600543]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Catherine_II_of_Russia&diff=prev&oldid=83602576][[User:Encyclopaedia Editing Dude|Encyclopaedia Editing Dude]] 11:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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==[[Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky]]==
==File source problem with File:Osada lavry.jpg==
Shouldn't this article be moved to [[Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov (Governor)]]? Because some people might think that his surname was Muravyov-Vilensky? Thanks. [[User:Encyclopaedia Editing Dude|Encyclopaedia Editing Dude]] 11:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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:I don't think it's a good idea. He was a minister for a longer period of time than he was governor. Although his ironic [[victory title]] is not official, it is good for distinguishing him from two or three other 19th-century Muravyovs, who were officially known as "Muravyov-Karssky" and "Muravyov-Amursky". --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 11:41, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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:::My prime concern is that people do not think, that it was his surname. But can the use of [[Muravyov-Vilensky]] be sourced and how commonly was it used? If reliable sources do exist, I see no probs with current title. But this title should be explained in the article I think. [[User:Encyclopaedia Editing Dude|Encyclopaedia Editing Dude]] 11:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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What happened to the Russian dogs? We only have Grape's pet "Haggis" now, and he is the wrong breed! [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 14:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== [[:File:Molev.jpg]] needs authorship information ==
Many thanks for the barnstar. I look forward to working with you in a cooperative and productive manner. [[User:Beit Or|Beit]] [[User talk:Beit Or|Or]] 19:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Wiki-friends ==
 
The media file you uploaded as [[:File:Molev.jpg]] appears to be missing information as to its authorship (and or source),
I have added you to my list of Wiki-friends. --[[User:Ineffable3000|Ineffable3000]] 19:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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==Article Naming==
[[Jogaila]] must be the most voted-on article there is. John Kenney has suggested a new plan for naming rulers. Basically, his idea is to change the current [[Ivan IV of Russia]] to just [[Ivan IV]], (likely, in English, more people recognise [[Ivan the Terrible]] and [[Peter the Great]] rather than Ivan IV and Peter I, but that's something else). For ambiguous things (like [[Alexander III]], the idea would be to put the title in brackets, like [[Alexander III (Emperor of Russia)]], [[Alexander III (King of Scots)]] and [[Alexander III (Pope)]]. Then we can use the pipe thing, like <nowiki>[[Alexander III (Emperor of Russia)|]]</nowiki>, to just print Alexander III. If you wanted, you could use other things, like <nowiki>[[Agatha (wife of Edward the Exile)]]</nowiki>, <nowiki>[[Maria Feodorovna (wife of Paul I)]]</nowiki> and <nowiki>[[Maria Feodorovna (wife of Alexander III)]]</nowiki>. It is the same way we disambiguate other things. It is explained at [[Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)]] if you want to have a look. All the best ! [[User:Angusmclellan|Angus McLellan]] [[User talk:Angusmclellan|(Talk)]] 09:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Hyrla ==
 
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It's the cuter Ruthenian form, nothing to lose your hair over. [[User:Truthseeker 85.5|Truthseeker 85.5]] 12:22, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[:File:Ivanovsky.jpg]] needs authorship information ==
== [[Sir Syed]] FAC ==
 
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Hi Ghirla - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Syed_Ahmed_Khan&diff=83839149&oldid=83702509 I've addressed your points] - about 10 new citations from multiple books, including those you suggested. Please have another look at the article/FAC. Thanks, [[User:Rama's Arrow|<font color="blue">'''Rama's arrow'''</font>]] 13:37, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Hi ghirlo ==
or if you did provide such information, it is confusing for others trying to make use of the image.
 
It would be appreciated if you would consider updating the file description page, to make the authorship of the media
Hi ghirlo, I missed you.--[[User:Clujeanul|Clujeanul]] 15:55, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
clearer.
:Hi bonny, I have not. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 15:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
:: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:Clujeanul Blocked indefinitely]. -- [[User:Grafikm_fr|<font color="Blue">'''Grafikm'''</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Grafikm_fr|'''<font color="red">(AutoGRAF)</font>''']]</sup> 16:46, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Sweet. :-) <tt class="plainlinks">[[User:Khoikhoi|Khoi]][[User talk:Khoikhoi|khoi]]</tt> 01:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Xenophobia must be stopped ==
 
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If even admins are making xenophobic remarks [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Darwinek&diff=81701562&oldid=81598582] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Piotrus&diff=81602453&oldid=81493790], (Ruski - pejorative for Russian in Polish), what can we expect from ordinary users. Enough is enough, I think. Something must be done. [[User:Encyclopaedia Editing Dude|Encyclopaedia Editing Dude]] 10:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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== Re: [[User:Leandrod]] ==
 
== [[Principality of Toropets]] ==
Does convincing him to stop the page moves not count as noticing the problem? ;-)
 
I attempted to create the article, and this is the best I could come up with. (I am afraid it is still better than the Russian article). I remember that Russian history is one of your main interests, so if you could have a look at some point it would be highly appreciated. There is obviously no hurry.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 17:47, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
Admittedly, I had (apparently naively) assumed that he would go back and fix the problem once it had been pointed out to him; it seems that he has no intention of doing that, unfortunately. I'll see if I can fix it; but I have a fairly large number of other things to do, so I don't know when I'll have time for it. [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill Lokshin]] 15:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
* The article is almost too good as it is (for the English-speaking public, which does not give a damn about such subjects). --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
*: Good, thanks.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 15:04, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
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== Alexander Nevsky, Revision by Vuhdeem as of 08:22, 4 October 2014 ==
 
Alexander Nevsky,Revision as of 08:22, 4 October 2014 by Vuhdeem - contradicts dates of article: "In 1237, ... He gave his 8-year-old son Aleksandr Yaroslavich to Batu into amanat (hostages). While staying in the Horde from 1238 to 1252,... , wed Batu Khan's daughter, "
==Help with a Peer Review==
Hello ! I'd like an expert opinion (rather than just the usual automated response), to a peer review I requested for [[Óengus I of the Picts]] which Calgacus and myself wrote. Would you have some time to give it a look over and let me know what you think ? Many thanks in advance, [[User:Angusmclellan|Angus McLellan]] [[User talk:Angusmclellan|(Talk)]] 16:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Known wikipedia sources give: 1236 - first rule in Novgorod in age of 15, first visit into Orda - 1247 in age of 26, no Khan's doughter as a wife.
== Re: Request for deletion ==
 
Now it found in uk.wikipedia article "Володимир Білінський". It may be timely view of this particular person.
Hi, um... wich images need deletion you say? There is no [[Commons:Image:Âÿçüìà.jpg]], so [[:Image:Âÿçüìà.jpg]] doesn't block anyting and [[:Image:Abramtsevo.jpg]] is from commons already (and it's not used in any articles)... If you mean you have a free image to replace [[:Image:Âÿçüìà.jpg]] just upload it under a "better" name, replace the image in the article(s) and slap {{tlsp|or-fu-re|Image:free image here.jpg}} on the orphanded fair use one. --[[User:Sherool|Sherool]] <span style="font-size:75%">[[User talk:Sherool|(talk)]]</span> 19:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 
Vuhdeem revision also removed date 1236 of previous author: Ghirlandajo Revision as of 15:02, 10 June 2005, and inserted itself stright among sentence of Ghirlandajo Revision.
== [[Château de Rosny-sur-Seine]] ==
 
Revision 08:22, 4 October 2014 by Vuhdeem should be limited to "OTHER VIES".
Hey Ghirlandajo, thanks for editing and sending this to DYK. I just translated it last night. Since you mentioned the part about Nippon Sangyoo Kabushiki Kaisha, I thought I should do some extra research to verify and cite what I translated. I found these three sources in a quick google search.
*http://www.humanite.presse.fr/journal/1996-01-23/1996-01-23-743719
*http://huma.fr/journal/1996-09-20/1996-09-20-761198
*http://planete-virtuelle.org/encyclopedia/R/Rosny-sur-Seine/
They are all pretty short, and I don't know if you read French or not but which do you think would be best to include? I also found the following in English, and am adding it to the references. I will also look for a link the original Times article at a NYT site.
*http://world.std.com/~hmfh/dubdesec.htm
 
Thanks and regards, [[User:DVD R WVSL56| DVDVSL56]]+ ([[User_talkUser talk:DVD R WVSL56| R/Wtalk]]) 1601:3201, 2827 OctoberFebruary 20062016 (UTC)
:The* firstThis linktype isof tootrash short;was thecommon secondin linklate does2014, notespecially appearfrom toukrainian be related to the question; the third link is the Wikipedia article about the villageIPs. TheJust NYTdelete link seems to be the most relevantit. By the way, do you know that this Japanese bastard also owns the [[Empire State Building]]? --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 1608:3514, 2827 OctoberFebruary 20062016 (UTC)
 
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== Kievan Rus' in [[History of Transnistria]] ==
[[User:VSL56|VSL56]] ([[User talk:VSL56|talk]]) 09:37, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
We currently have a low-intensity and, to a point, fairly civil discussion on [[Talk:History of Transnistria]] which seems to center on the point of to which extent, and at which time in history, Ancient Rus' may have influenced or covered the left bank of the Dniester river (i.e., east of the Dniester). I hereby invite you to contribute with your knowledge, please. Thank you. - [[User:William Mauco|Mauco]] 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== [[AmanThe TuleyevSpook House]] ==
 
I have removed the synopsis, which you state was published in 1927. It is therefore still under copyright. Sorry, — [[User:Diannaa|Diannaa]] ([[User talk:Diannaa|talk]]) 21:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
On discovering this article, I noticed a rather unfortunate link to Alexander Tikhonov, the ice hockey player. Of ourse, nothing to do with you - the maker of that article (months later) should have checked the links to his new page. The imprisoned Alexander Tikhonov was not even related. I have added some more info on Tuleyev which I deemed interesting. Sorry, but this is no Kakiev article ...--[[User:Pan Gerwazy|Pan Gerwazy]] 20:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
* I'm going to revert your edit. The text is taken from the [[:s:Supernatural Horror in Literature|Wikisource]] page which states that the work is in the public ___domain. As the text has been available on Wikisource since 2004, I see no reason to delete it from Wikipedia. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:43, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
::Sorry for not replying sooner. The material was published in 1927, it still could be under copyright. The Wikisource page says the copyright was never renewed, but I don't know how they determined that. — [[User:Diannaa|Diannaa]] ([[User talk:Diannaa|talk]]) 22:28, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
::[[:User:Cryptic]] has checked the online database [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/ here], and discovered the material is PD, so I have restored it. Thanks for your patience, — [[User:Diannaa|Diannaa]] ([[User talk:Diannaa|talk]]) 01:04, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
::: Thank you. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:19, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
 
== Kiy Island ==
== [[Anatoli Vassiljevitsch Ivanov]] ==
 
Hi Ghirlandajo, cab you please show me where in [[WP:RUS]] it states that the rule is not applicable to stressed vowels. I can't see anything other than a distinction between words of Russian and non Russian origin. Am I missing something? Thanks. [[User:Fenix down|Fenix down]] ([[User talk:Fenix down|talk]]) 07:07, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Здраствуйте, Андрей. Я видел, что вы так-же приняли участи в дсикуссии об Анатолии Васильевиче Иванове. Так как я не являюсь постоянным участником википедии, то мне сложно приводить какие-либо аргументы в этой дискуссии без того, чтобы меня не обвинили в предвзятости. Я бы был вам очень признателен, если бы вы могли бы мне помочь. Заранее благодарен, Игорь--[[User:Djiggy|djiggy]] 11:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
* {{ping|Ezhiki}} {{ping|Ymblanter}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiy_Island&diff=prev&oldid=715990626 The situation] is not described in [[WP:RUS]] because the placename Кий is an exception to the rule. Apart from [[Viy]], I can't readily think of any other words consisting of the single syllable ending with "-ий". The "Ky" version is completely nonsensical, because it leaves the syllable without vowels. It is impossible to pronounce. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 18:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
*: I am sure it should be Kiy. May be we can make a footnote in [[WP:RUS]], I can not right now think of other single-sillable name with "-ий" but tehnically it is possible. Compare [[Viy]] which nobody romanizes as Vy.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 18:34, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
:::To my mind there is no difference in pronunciation between Kiy and Ky as the y in Ky is being pronounced as a vowel but I understand it might look a bit weird visually so happy for it to stay where it is if everyone agrees. As an aside, what do people make of [[Kyyy]]? [[User:Fenix down|Fenix down]] ([[User talk:Fenix down|talk]]) 19:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
::::It's not so much about stressed/unstressed vowels, as it is about the usual practice of replacing "-iy" with "-y" in adjectives and certain first names ("Valery", "Makary"), but not in nouns or words of non-Russian origin. This is actually mentioned in WP:RUS—scroll all the way down to the bottom of the "Full rules" table, where endings are explained; the third column explains how the "-iy" ending should generally be dealt with. {{small|("Kyyy" is awful but inevitable, since the word being romanized is a direct borrowing from Sakha and looks pretty weird in Russian, too).}} Cheers,—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">April 20, 2016</span>; 15:54 (UTC)
:::::Where does Kiy/Ky come from in this instance then? [[User:Fenix down|Fenix down]] ([[User talk:Fenix down|talk]]) 16:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
::::::There are multiple theories, but most likely the name is either of Finno-Ugric or Saami origins. At any rate, it's a noun now, and the "-iy" ending in nouns would not be reduced to "-y" when romanized.—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">April 20, 2016</span>; 16:39 (UTC)
::::::P.S. By the way, similar cases include [[Fiy]] in the Republic of Dagestan, [[Niy]] and [[Kiy (rural locality)|Kiy]] in the Republic of Ingushetia, and my personal favorite [[Iy (rural locality)|Iy]] in the Tuva Republic. Of these, Fiy is the largest (with ~1,500 people).—[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); <span class="nowrap">April 20, 2016</span>; 17:02 (UTC)
:::::::Thanks for the info, very interesting. [[User:Fenix down|Fenix down]] ([[User talk:Fenix down|talk]]) 17:31, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
::: BTW -iy is often stressed in Ukrainian surnames. e.g., [[Taisia Povaliy]]. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 05:17, 21 April 2016 (UTC)
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==Amber Room==
Hi Ghirla. FYI, I read somewhere (but unfortunately don't remember where) that Polish divers have sarched through the semi-fragmented wreckage of the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'' but not found any trace of the Amber Room. Perhaps if you know more you would like to add something about this to the article? My thought would be that, since the ship was totally crammed from holds to superstructure with refugees, it seems unlikely there would have been room for dozens of crates of Amber Room stuff.
 
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I've also encountered speculation somewhere that one reason the Poles didn't execute Erich Koch, the infamous Gauleiter, was they hoped to get info on the Amber Room out of him — but never did. I don't know if there's any truth to that or not.
 
== [[Glinski Rebellion]] ==
PS: This is the longest 'talk' page I've seen!
 
Статья совершенно нечитабельная, или ещё куда ни шло? Если первое, то, вероятно, её было бы проще удалить, чем переписывать, а мне не следует заниматься самопереводом с таким уровнем владения языком. [[User:Azgar|Azgar]] ([[User talk:Azgar|talk]]) 10:47, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
[[User:Sca|Sca]] 14:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
: Имеет смысл переписывать, удалять не нужно.--[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 10:53, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
:: Спасибо. Просто ещё два раздела не перевёл, думаю, имет ли смысл. Хотя, если кто-то поправит самые очевидные ошибки, то, вероятно, имеет. [[User:Azgar|Azgar]] ([[User talk:Azgar|talk]]) 12:25, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
::: Конечно, имеет. В принципе, всё понятно. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 15:29, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 
== Siegeygm of ConstantinopleQuestia ==
 
*Please do let me know if you have any questions or problems.
What do you mean by "please don't pillage other articles, without proper attribution". The events were part of the siege, the information was freely licenced under GFDL, and was added with proper citation. And why did you remove the citation you requested for "''Mikligardur''"? --[[User:Grimhelm|Grimhelm]] 17:11, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
* {{ygm}}&nbsp; [[User:Lingzhi|Lingzhi]]&nbsp;&diams;&nbsp;[[User talk:Lingzhi|(talk)]] 10:32, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
:Instead of merging the articles, you created two forks, thus violating the guidelines of Wikipedia. I will merge them later today and nominate for DYK as our joint work. Cheers! --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 17:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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::I didn't regard it as a fork (apologies for that). Thanks for the DYK nomination suggestion, but I think "Siege of Constantinople" is more accurate as a title than "Rus'-Byzantine War", as I said in the [[Talk:Rus'-Byzantine War (860)|talk page]]. --[[User:Grimhelm|Grimhelm]] 17:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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:::You know it was me who suggested this (unfortunate) title on [[Christianization of Kievan Rus']]. Siege or no siege (nobody stormed the walls of Constantinople this time), the term "war" is preferrable, because I'm going to write articles about all other Russo-Byzantine wars over the following weak (just like I did with [[Russo-Kazan Wars]], [[Russo-Swedish War]]s and Russo-Turkish Wars in the past). In such war series, consistency is important. It is not good if the first entry is called a "siege", while the following conflicts are "wars", since there was no material difference between them. A Byzantine scholar thinks about the event in terms of a siege; all the Slavonic historians refer to it as a "Constantinople campaign of the Rus" or a "Tsargrad expedition". We should find a middle ground. I hope you understand what I mean. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 17:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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::::Okay, but the siege was the ''only'' battle of that "war", and the war was actually part of the larger [[Rus'-Byzantine Wars]]. Conflicts occurred in 860, 907, 911, 941, 945, 971, and finally 1043; it is impossible to define a single siege as a "war" in its own right. --[[User:Grimhelm|Grimhelm]] 17:38, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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===List of sieges===
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Thank you for pointing that out, and I will do so. I was actually working on the [[Sieges of Constantinople]] article first, but I will add them to the main [[list of sieges]] article. Does this mean you would accept Siege of Constantinople as the article title, as part of the larger Rus' conflict and line of sieges to Constantinople? --[[User:Grimhelm|Grimhelm]] 17:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
:I just completed the merge, leaving the Siege of Constantinople as the title of the battlebox. I believe the resultant article is our joined work and I look forward to working with you in the future. Do you know that [[Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars]] are tagged as in need of an expert's attention? --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 17:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
::I'll accept the new title then, and thank you for the credit in the history page (more than I was ever given the last time one of my articles was merged…). I'll try to improve the article with some more citations. --[[User:Grimhelm|Grimhelm]] 17:58, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
:::Ok, the citations may raise the article to the [[WP:GA|GA]] level... --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 18:06, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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==1812 Franco-Russian War==
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Ghirla:
 
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You'll notice that I'm dusting-up the "campaign boxes" of some of the 1812 battles, such as Ostrovno, 1st Polotsk, etc. I'm drawing my figures from some excellent datasources. I've also tampered with the "result" sections...if you are not happy with this, please change it back to whatever you prefer.
 
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:I started to fill in the "Battle of Saltanovka" article, but was compelled to stop immediately because the sources on this battle provide conflicting descriptions of what happened.
 
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:The problem is: was Bagration intending to break through at Saltanovka, attempting to reach Barclay, or was did he intend to retreat before the battle began, simply using Raevsky's division as a diversion against the French at Saltanovka.
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[[User:Kenmore|Kenmore]] 05:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)kenmore
 
We are students writing an article on [[User:Thelmadatter/Tiler Peck|Tiler Peck]] as part of our class Academic and Discourse writing at Tec de Monterrey. Since you are an experienced Wikipedian and have an interest in these kind of topics, we would like to know if you could take a few moments to take a look at the article and give us feedback. Thank you for your time. --[[User:Antonio Pano|Antonio Pano]] ([[User talk:Antonio Pano|talk]]) 21:17, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
::Ghirla:
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::Thanks for your reply regarding my 1812 comments. In the meantime, I'm going to send an email to a Georgian professor here in the US who is an expert on Bagration and the Russian 1812 war...he did his doctoral thesis on Bagration. If he replies, that will clear up some of the confusion regarding Saltanovka.
 
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::By the way, it may surprise you to know that in the West, Saltanovka is known as the Battle of Mogilev, and it is said that Bagration, with 60,000 troops, attacked Davout, who had 28,000 troops, and that Davout won the battle.
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<blockquote>This technically falls under [[WP:BLPPROD]] based on the last few paragraphs, but I want to point out that even without those paragraphs this is basically a duplicate of [[Zubov (surname)]], and that page should be moved here.</blockquote>
 
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====Battle of Krasnoi is finished====
 
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Ghirla:
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1. I still need to footnote sections #1 ("Background") and #2 ("Rout of Ozharovsky"). This is especially important because some major historians confuse the Ozharovsky skirmish with the Guard's feint two days later. I want to explain the distinction in a footnote.
 
== A barnstar for you! ==
2. I have a few more details to add to section #3 ("Defeat of Eugene") regarding specifics of the combat on that day.
 
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3. I need to better research the data in section #6 ("Summary of Results"). There's some controversy as to how many cannon the French lost at Krasnoi -- some say 133, others say close to 200. Also, it's not clear how many of the cannon were lost at Krasnoi itself, as opposed to guns lost on the 40 mile road between Krasnoi and Smolensk due to Cossack raids. The same holds true of the 39,000 French casualties.
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4. I want to better and more accurately specify the corps and division numbers of the various French and Russian units involved.
 
5. I still need to do a final grammar and diction check. No doubt sentence mechanics and paragraph construction in many instances need to be improved...from the perspective of writing, it's still a bit raw.
 
Right now, I don't expect that the article warrants any better than a "B" rating.
 
[[User:Kenmore|Kenmore]] 05:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
 
==== Schoen Grabern ====
 
I've added my suggestions about Schoen Grabern to the "discussion" page on that article.
 
As for St. Dizier, I need to research that before commenting. The campaign of 1814 has never interested me too deeply. I will however make a point of looking into this for you.
 
[[User:Kenmore|Kenmore]] 06:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
 
==Ghirla: can you edit a Krasnoi map image for me?==
 
The map of Krasnoi that I created by editing an Adobe document image in MS Painbrush can be seen in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Kenmore#Ozharovsky_problem_solved:_he_had_3500_troops_at_most
 
The map is now accurate, and I'd like to post it in the main Krasnoi article. However, I need to find a way to cut away all of the image except the map itself (in other words, no Adobe image, no other "print screen" details on the map's edge, etc.
 
Do you have the means to do this for me? Please advise.
 
Thanks!
 
[[User:Kenmore|Kenmore]] 07:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
 
==Battles of Russia (2002)==
 
Ghirla:
 
Can you tell me more about this "Battles of Russia" book you were telling me about? Can its contents be read over the internet? How big is the book, and how many battles does it cover?
 
[[User:Kenmore|Kenmore]] 00:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)kenmore
 
==Unblock==
Please see my message;
[[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive60#Requesting_consensus_to_unblock_Mustafa_Akalp|here]],
[[Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive142#RfA_vote_spamming| and here]].
Regards
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==Re:DYK for Battle of Vyazma==
I am sorry for the omission but I am still in the process of learning the multitude of hidden subtleties and undocumented community expectations that have been omitted from the [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Guide|Guide to Updating DYK]]. The missed notification occurred on my first attempt at updating the DYK template and I am still to learn all the unwritten rules associated with the process. --''[[User: Allen3|Allen3]]''&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:Allen3|talk]]</sup> 12:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 
==DYK==
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== A barnstar for you! ==
==cheers==
I like it when I take up a topic and after some minutes note you joining in, as happened several times now. Thanks for the nice collaboration. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 18:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
:ah, yes, I thought I hadn't noticed these articles before, that's why I redirected my redlinks to [[Maeotian marshes]]. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 18:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 
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still in a Scythian vein, I just came across [[Asii]], which seems highly suspect to me, maybe you'd like to have a look.
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== Привет ==
 
Thank you for your greeting. I do not plan on mirroring your barnstar-studded devotion to Wikipedia, but I have done a little bit here and there (both as an IP address and as Eli) to flesh out, clean up and/or correct some articles. Mostly, these have been related to the natural history, flora and fauna of Kamchatka and the Kuril islands. Do keep up your comprehensive coverage of Russian human history and architecture! It is appreciated. Всего доброго!
 
[[User:Eliezg|Eliezg]] 02:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 
== Копорье ==
 
Hello!
Regarding the names of the place Копорье, I can , as a [[Swedish-speaking Finn]] understand your protectionism (but for that matter can't see why you accept the ''Swedish'' name but not the Finnish) I am mostly reasonable regarding names in different languages and generally don't intervene when in question are names that never have had any relevancy, but also sensitive when it comes to fanatical attempts to deny the existence of another name. (To which I have to spend an irritating amount of time in fighting on the Finnish WP, when daily used Swedish names frequently are erased) The following I will paste also onto the discussion page of Копорье:
==Regarding ancient names of the place==
The directions in [[WP:NC]] are only telling how to name ''articles'' about places, but it also says in several links that different names should be mentioned first thing in the beginning of the articles. Some browsing around WP shows that in most places where there are several names, they are also mentioned; the article about the Spanish city [[Alicante]] directly tells the name also in [[Catalan]], the [[Inuit]] town [[Qaanaaq]] has a name in [[English]], the German region [[Holstein]] has a Danish name, although the region never have belonged to Denmark (though it nabours), a lot of Irish places have names in Gaelic (there is actually a separate direction page on how to name Irish places) etc. In this case the name of the article is, as stated in the instructions, the official present name of the city, transscribed from cyrillic letters, that is Koporye. <br>
The region, [[Ingria]], has been inhabited with Finnish tribes since prehistoric times, as the distinguished user [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirlandajo]] himself tells in the article about [[Kingisepp]] (where actually also is told the Finnish name, Я´ма, though transscribed it comes out as ''Yama'' instead of ''Jaama''). See also the russian article Ингерманландия, chapter about Народы. Ingria belonged to Sweden 1609 - 1721, and also 1580 - 1595, (The latter is ignored in the Russian article) and therefor in a way to Finland, as Finland was a part of Sweden by that time. The Finnish tribes lived there until the [[Soviet Union|Sovjet]] leaders gradually had them expelled all around the Union, mostly to [[Siberia]]. The last ones moved to Finland when the president of Finland (by that time [[Mauno Koivisto]], as far as I can recall) granted them Finnish nationality in the 1980-90's. Thus geographical names in Finnish are a relevant part of the history of the region, and can't be neglected, whether you like it or not. Unless you come with some very heavy evidence that I shouldn't, and in that case also verified by some administrator, I will restore the name Kaprio in it within a few days. [[User:Islander(Scandinavia)|Islander(Scandinavia)]] 23:25, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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If you think my edit was Germano-centric, feel free to edit it to make it better, but the sentence you reverted to "Until 1918, any aristocrat wishing to marry, and for their progeny to carry their title, had to marry a woman of similar rank," is just completely wrong. Most "aristocrats" could marry anyone they liked. Only German ''aristocrats'' had to worry about equality, as far as I am aware. ''Royalty'' throughout most of continental Europe had to worry about such things, but royalty and aristocracy are not the same thing. Furthermore, even this latter is mostly a product of the 18th and 19th centuries - before that rules were much looser. I think my formulation was considerably more accurate than the current one, but I'm open to other wording. What I'm not open to is leaving the incredibly misleading current formulation in place, which suggests that a French count has to marry equally if he wants his kids to inherit his title. This is nonsense, as far as I'm aware - a Duke of Polignac born in ''1817'' had as his mother plain "Barbara Campbell". Morganatic marriage, as far as I'm aware, applies only to ''German houses'' and to ''sovereign houses''. It does not apply to mere nobility outside Germany, and we shouldn't imply that it does. [[User:John Kenney|john k]] 12:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Do you know what happened to the image you uploaded and included to the article about the [[Moscow Triumphal Gates]]? --regards, [[User:Odengatan|Odengatan]] 10:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
:Well, for years we used to have the license tag SovietPD for the Soviet works before 1973. Bright legal wikiminds found the license invalid and deleted all the files tagged with this license (except ~2000 we managed to retag). The file Image:Moscowtriumph.jpg was one of them and was deleted on Commons. We should ask some Petersbugian with a digital camera to photograph it for us. [[User:Alex Bakharev|Alex Bakharev]] 11:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
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I am ignorant and in need of help. I have edited material under different user names because I don't remember how to get back into my old account because I have little time to be on wikipedia. I think it is a great project, but it is set up to screen out people like me in the interests of keeping out trolls. So it might be better to pass difficulties that I do not understand to you: I tried to change the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Standing_on_the_Ugra_River to the more correct in English:
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I put a note on the discuss page. But no one has taken action, and so now there are both pages. I was not allowed to simply move the page because I did not have enough history.
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Thank you for adding an image and the Russian name to [[Dmitry Belosselskiy]]! Would you able to add more prize winners to the [[Golden Mask (Russian award)|Golden Mask]]? --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 08:11, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Thanks in advance for you help, and I frankly don't even know how to tell you to reach me, except with lightn at muohio dot edu. Best, NL
* I listed some of the recent winners. --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 16:01, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 
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:Hi, I have merged the copy-paste move of the [[Great stand on the Ugra river]]. If you have activated an e-mail on your accounts you could request the system to e-mail you your password on the login screen it is the button in the bottom right. If you have not activated the e-mail, then I am afraid the account is lost. Just register a new account and link the userpage of the previous account to the new one [[User:Alex Bakharev|Alex Bakharev]] 02:15, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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::He has a point as far as English is concerned. Stand is more idiomatic than standing, which seems very odd. However, "stand" can, and usully does mean "(very short) hardened resistance to attack" (Custer's Last Stand). Confrontation also loses the meaning of armies looking at each other for days on end, without doing anything. A translation in Dutch, that I had prepared, is being delayed because of the problem of translating stoyanie. --[[User:Pan Gerwazy|Pan Gerwazy]] 09:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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so please don't feel picked on. Here's my thing. I've been watching [[list of sculptors]] recently and have been weeding out the entries in [[reddd|red]] on the theory that this is an index of sculptors in wikipedia. However i have been reluctant to remove artists that I know or discover to be real, wikipedia worthy people, so am trying to decide if i should just do a stub - maybe a lot of stubs - of these folks or leave them on the list [I HATE lists with too much red - check out the [[List of Frank Lloyd Wright works]] for example.
 
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For example, i checked out one, [[François-Joseph Duret]] (1804 - 1865) and discovered that there are at least two sculptors with that name, (1732 - 1816) and (1804 - 1865)- this one is the son - and both probably could comfortably be in wikipedia. I did have a rather bad moment recently when someone DELETED my article on [[Connor Barrett]] about an hour [maybe less] after I first posted it, on the theory that he was not wikiworthy [or something] and a lot of these fairly remote (in time and place from me) artists are a lot more obscure than Barrett. So, i would like to know that i have the support of the wikipedia art history community before doing this. Drop me a line, if you wish to sit down and be counted. Life is good, [[User:Carptrash|Carptrash]] 05:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC) '''P.S.''' although i do mostly American art i have contributed to lots on non-American articles including [[Aleijadinho]], [[Ásmundur Sveinsson]], [[Einar Jonsson]], [[Gunnfrídur Jónsdóttir]], [[Henry Moore]], [[Ivan Meštrović]], [[Ørnulf Bast]], [[Rayner Hoff]], and probably some others. I say this because most of the stubs I'm proposing would be Europeans.
 
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:Carptrash, the article on Barrett probably already existed. I fixed some redlinks and deleted a couple of typos. English sculptors, or sculptors working in England are not well represented, so I'm adding all that have an illustration in Gunnis, for a start... --[[User:Wetman|Wetman]] 06:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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Can I ask what the objection is to this image? [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 14:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
:I generally object to spamming the same images across multiple related pages. The image is OK in [[Olga of Kiev]] and [[Christianization of Kievan Rus']] (where it has always been). It is quite annoying to see it popping up in articles about Olga's son, husband, and other pages where her name is briefly mentioned. If you disagree, you may restore it. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 14:28, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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You know, if you would just enter factual edit summaries, instead of entertaining yourself by [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_East_Slavic_language&curid=472248&diff=86266657&oldid=86046695 calling stuff names] all the time, maybe other editors wouldn't feel compelled to check up on your edits when they see their watchlist spammed with your content-free self-expressions.&nbsp;''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-11-07&nbsp;14:02&nbsp;Z</small>''
Just a formality, as it seems you haven't been notified. –[[User:Dlthewave|dlthewave]] [[User_talk:Dlthewave|☎]] 16:20, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
:Honestly, I wince at your apparent connivance of Christofor's spamming spree. I assume that you are an administrator and have the article in your watchlist. If this is the case, I find it hard to explain why you preferred to wait until CRCluver and me [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Christofor&diff=prev&oldid=86266866 deal with the disruption] and then went here to reprimand my prompt action. This is disappointing. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 14:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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:: Please don't accuse me of "connivance". I don't review each of the hundreds of daily edits on my watchlist. All I know about this since your edit summary attracted my attention is that it has something to do with category:Ruthenia, and apparently not commercial spam. If you'd like me to have a look, I can do so when I have some time.&nbsp;''—[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2006-11-07&nbsp;19:11&nbsp;Z</small>''
 
Thanks for your contributions today, even though you mention above a dislike for Repin. It is good to have input from a Russian speaker. I get the impression that the article is depending slightly too much on English sources at the moment, and there must be more that could be added from Russian language sources. [[Special:Contributions/213.205.240.133|213.205.240.133]] ([[User talk:213.205.240.133|talk]]) 08:42, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
== Gligan ==
== [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[:File:Ilyinsky.jpg]] ==
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Why then there are seperate articles for england, Italy or Byzantium??? In my opinion Bulgaria deserves at least a seperate sub-article in Eastern Europe.--[[User:Gligan|Gligan]] 17:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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:: I hope that you will now accept the new sub-article I wrote for Bulgaria. By the way there was time when Bulgaria was the largest state in Europe (Emperor Simeon I (893-927)), and culturally it was well ahead of the Kievan Rus' (I am not trying to insult you, and I do not mean that Rus' culture was miserable)- the alphabet you use was invented in Bulgaria in that time, with territory of 22km² the old capital Pliska was the largest city in Europe by area with sewerage and floor heating. The new capital Preslav was rival of Constantinople with its splendour. We had a Patriarch in 927 and so on. Of course Kiev and Novgorod were also very beautiful and significant cities... It would be interesting for me to know whether you and the Russians as a whole consider the Kievan Rus' as Russia.--[[User:Gligan|Gligan]] 20:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Hi, I'm having trouble editing my section back at NPA noticeboard, no matter what I edit I can't answer to your specific comment. Just to make sure, did you answer to me with the bit about baiting? If yes, how is reporting about an enemies list baiting? Thanks [[User:Jean-Philippe|Jean-Philippe]] 18:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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:Must have been an odd edit conflict. Sorry to bother you :/ [[User:Jean-Philippe|Jean-Philippe]] 18:24, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the edits to the article on the [[:Orthodox brotherhood]], see [[User talk:Ymblanter#Problem editor]].--<span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000">[[User:Toddy1| Toddy1]] [[User talk:Toddy1|(talk)]]</span> 19:30, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
 
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::Yes, there was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Personal_attack_intervention_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=86316109 an edit conflict] I think. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 18:25, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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About: Image:The mother of the Russian sovereign Svjatoslav, Olga along with her escort from the Chronicle of John Skylitzes
Why is not a good ideea to place the image in the article?
Is just a question:)[[User:CristianChirita|CristianChirita]]
:Please scroll up for an answer. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 21:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
done:)[[User:CristianChirita|CristianChirita]] 20:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 
Hello- What edit are you "reverting" with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rouen&diff=next&oldid=863052430 this edit]? I went back in the history a bit and don't see a deletion that your edit restores. [[User:Eric|Eric]] <sup>[[User talk:Eric|talk]]</sup> 02:13, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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:The history section [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rouen&type=revision&diff=782898965&oldid=779744080 was destroyed in May 2017]. See [[Talk:Rouen#History_of_Rouen]]. I restored [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rouen&oldid=360935152 an older, more concise version] (with slight tweaks). --[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:14, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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::Ok, thanks, I see now. I didn't go that far back. [[User:Eric|Eric]] <sup>[[User talk:Eric|talk]]</sup> 12:51, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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::You made the wise decision. They could be their own articles one day tho. [[User:DVD R W| DVD]]+[[User_talk:DVD R W| R/W]] 20:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
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If you've got time could you comment at [[Talk:Chuchuna#Translation or build from scratch?]] That put [https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/ilya-samuilovich-gurvich-national-library-of-republic-sakha/aQIy0pZwjPpoKQ?hl=en Ilya Samuilovich Gurvich] [[:ru:Гурвич, Илья Самуилович]] on the todo list also. Thanks.&mdash;[[User:EricR|eric]] 17:36, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
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I do not think this category is such a good idea. It is an anachronism.
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It will invite creation of even more problematic categories such as "of Ukraine", "of Moldavia", "of Switzerland", "of Iraq". Unlike China or India, "Russia" refers to a nation (state) but not to a geographic region in general. "Ancient peoples of Siberia", "of the Pontic steppe", etc. would make more sense, and these can still be in "Category:History of Russia".
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Also, regarding Proto-Indo-Europeans and Indo-Aryans, these are prehistoric peoples, ''assumed'' to have lived in parts of what is now Russia. This is too uncertain, you should at least restrict yourself to ''historical'' people, beginning with the Scythians. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 15:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
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:well, I'm just saying I don't think much good will come of this, knowing my Wikipedians. I can't think of any people that should be in [[:Category:Ancient peoples of Russia]] but ''not'' in [[:Category:Ancient peoples]] at the same time. It would be a similarly bad idea to do "Ancient peoples of the UK". Case in point, compare [[Russia]] top [[China]]. [[Russia]] is about the state evolved from Ancient Rus (but covering about ten times(?) the territory of the latter now. [[China]] is about a "cultural region". Just as with Russia, I ''don't'' think [[:Category:Ancient peoples of China]] is a good idea. At least, the [[Xiongnu]] don't belong in it, since they may have lived in the territory of the contemporary PRC, but they did ''not'' live in [[China]]-the-region. Dividing topics of ancient history along modern state boundaries is a very bad idea. that doesn't just hold for Russia. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 15:26, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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::I see your point. But most of these peoples are in the extreme south-west of the Russian federation, and with the blurry nature of these reports, it is impossible to say if their territory was completely within that of the RF. Also, you seem to be unaware of the "China" naming dispute. It is far from undisputed that "China" equals "People's Republic of China", even not considering boundary disputes. For the purposes of these categories, we seem to refer to the ''territory'' of the ''modern states'', so they should be correctly called "Category:Ancient people on the territory of the Russian Federation" and "Category:Ancient people on the territory of the People's Republic of China" for clarity. "Russia" of Ivan the Terrible was quite a different territory from "Russia" today. If you ''really'' just want to unclutter [[:Category:History of Russia]], you should create regional sub-categories (e.g. by [[Federal districts of Russia]]; historical "Russia" proper will essentially just be the [[Central Federal District]]). Most of your Scythia-related peoples will end up in [[:Category:History of Russia's Southern Federal District]]. To unclutter [[Category:Ancient peoples]], it would make more sense to adopt ancient geographer's divisions, such as [[:Category:Peoples of Scythia]] (to include peoples living in the region which are not unambiguously classifiable as "Scythians") [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 15:56, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 
Если никто не напишет недели за две, то переведу отсюда, хорошо. Просто если сейчас загляну в русскую Википедию, то опять надолго выйду из строя. Да и не планирую я туда полноценно возвращаться без очистки логов. (Я в мае намечал здесь создать страниц 50–100 из старых планов/запасов... Для десятка страниц даже заготовки уже были. Теперь, конечно, так много создать не получится, но хоть что-то.) --[[User:Moscow Connection|Moscow Connection]] ([[User talk:Moscow Connection|talk]]) 08:25, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
we should think about this some more. there is no deadline :) all I am saying is that we have to be careful how to structure [[:Category:History of Russia]]: it has a huge scope, and it is obvious it needs some sub-structure, but the question is complicated. I am creating [[:Category:Scythia]] at the moment, which is for all things related to Scythia that doesn't necessary concern the Scythians themselves. I am not quite convinced this is a very good idea either... [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 16:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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-- re [[Komedes]], oh dear, this must have the same author as [[Asii]]. I am sure there is some value in it, but it has to be reviewed. Regarding the wagon image of the Государственный Эрмитаж, it is a very cool image. Do we have editors in Petersburg, maybe, who could take a GFDL snapshot from the museum directly? [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 16:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
:great images -- I'm happy with claiming fair use for them, but you know copyrighted images are strongly discouraged. At the end of the day, you can always place direct external links from articles to museum pages. If you find a Peterburgian willing to shoot GFDL images, I suppose we could easily collect some bucks for the museum entry. I'd certainly contribute an Euro or two if it gets us nice GFDL images. If photography isn't permitted within the museum, otoh, we should stick with fair use, since it will then apply that the "images are not easily reproduced" :) [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 16:44, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
::[[:Category:Scythia]] isn't supposed to solve your problem with "History of Russia", or replace your "Ancient peoples of Russia" one. It is simply intended to group topics relating to a certain region and period, just like [[:Category:Germany]] for present-day Germany, and [[:Category:Mesopotamia]] for ancient Mesopotamia. There is no way around categories overlapping, this is no problem since we have categories, not a strictly hierarchical classification system. I think a "Scythia" category is necessary. Note that the [[Indo-Scythians]], for example, belong under "Scythians", not "Scythia", and the Maeotian marshes belong under "Scythia", not "Scythians". The categories overlap but aren't identical or supersets. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 16:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 
Hello, Ghirlandajo! First, не понимаю по-русский (the only Russian sentence I learned as a child.)
Hello, Andrey!
 
I read that you have absented yourself from the English Wikipedia, but I'm hoping you might still answer a question. [[WP:TT/M|Typo team/moss]] found an unexpected word in the article [[A Sportsman's Sketches]], a page that you have modified in the past. The section in question reads: <blockquote>'''Bailiff'''<br>
I see that you have removed an edit I wrote to the
Story about the bailiff (Sofron) of a landowner friend of the narrator who is more in control of the land than Arkady Penochkin. He uses the peasants and steals their money from loans. This story was an '''<span style="color:#2E4DEA">angreement</span>''', though not explicit, of a letter written in response to Gogol's Slavophile tendencies. This story is one of the most vivid examples of the peasantry's exploitation.</blockquote>
article about Pskov. I agree fully, that Pskov has
never been a Finnish town, nor an Estonian. My point
was merely to give a Finnish translitteration to the
noun 'Pskov', if anyone might be interested from that.
As Finland has many historical and geographical ties with
Russia, as you might already know, it is only reasonable
that also a Finnish translitteration of 'Pskov'
(i.e. Pihkova) is given.
 
The word in blue is unclear. The most similar word would be "agreement", but I wondered about "arrangement", or even "adaptation". Can you help clarify this? Thanks. - [[User:Jkgree|Jkgree]] ([[User talk:Jkgree|talk]]) 22:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
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* Hello, the misspelled word [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Sportsman%27s_Sketches&diff=prev&oldid=59286584 was added in 2006 by an anonymous editor]. I have no idea what he had in mind. [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 07:13, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
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Look what I found [http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/130/ Большая Советская Энциклопедия]. Thousands of 1970s images from the 3rd edition that can be uploaded under fair use for anything. Also right now I have the original 1950s 2nd edition of the encyclopedia in 50+ hardbacks with excellent PD images in them. Any requests?
 
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Here is a taster [http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/082/102.htm Новгород]. --[[User:Kuban kazak|Kuban Cossack]] [[Image:Romanov Flag.svg|25px|]] 13:45, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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:I'm well aware of these resources, thanks. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 13:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Hi Ghirla, could you take a look at this when you have a chance? Especially the phrases <<командирован в Кремлевскую экспедицию в Москву>> and <<Перезахоронен в Некрополе>>, which I couldn't quite translate. Also if you see anything else to add or that needs editing, please do. Thanks, [[User:DVD R W| DVD]]+[[User_talk:DVD R W| R/W]] 08:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
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:If you don't like the image of Soviet champagne or feel that it violates someone's copyrights, I give you permission to delete it, provided that you produce a free replacement. I want to remark that the image was uploaded under [[Template:PD-Soviet]] and was perfectly valid, until the template was suddenly deprecated and turned invalid, for reasons unknown to me. Good luck, <font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 07:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
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Zdorovo, do you think this is DYKable: [[Tondrakians]] ?--[[User:Eupator|Eupator]] 21:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
:Also, I remember discussing this with you, but you don't object moving [[Battle of Vartanantz]] to [[Battle of Avarayr]] right? See:[http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/059/251.htm] for an example.
::[[Tondrakians]] is stubby, if you ask me. As for the battle, I have no opinion whether it should be moved or not. We should ascertain which name is more popular in English-language academic literature. So far, I don't see many benefits from this move. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 11:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Google returns 321 unique results for "battle of avarayr", 98 unique results for "battle of avarair" and 270 unique results for "battle of vartanantz" a good number of which are mirrors of the wiki article. Since both Armenian and Russian sources use "Battle of Avarayr" and English sources also seem to prefer that I recommend a move unless you do object.--[[User:Eupator|Eupator]] 17:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
:Thanks for the move! Can you take a look at [[Tondrakians]] again? I added a little more info using primary sources.--[[User:Eupator|Eupator]] 20:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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== [[Macarius I]] ==
 
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A propos on [[Macarius I]]: how should we format the nameы of ecclesiaticals? Right now we have, in [[Macarius I]]:
: Macarius I (Russian: Mikhail Petrovich Bulgakov)
This looks outright weird -- as if he was called "Bulgakov" in Russian and "Macarius" in English (or Latin perhaps).
This obviously was not the case -- he was born M.P.Bulgakov (well, actually ''baptized'' "Mikhail", I suppose),
and when he joined a monastic order, we received the monastic name "Makariy". I suggest that we can emulate the article on
[[Pope John Paul II]], which goes like this:
: '''Pope John Paul II''' ([[Latin]]: ''Ioannes Paulus PP. II''), ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Giovanni Paolo II''), born {'''Karol Józef Wojtyła'''}} (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) ...
The entry for [[Patriarch Sergius I of Moscow]] is formatted similarly. Can we do something like this for Macarius too? E.g. like this:
: Macarius I ({{lang-ru|Макарий}}, Makariy), born Mikhail Petrovich Bulgakov (Russian: ...),(1816-18882), was the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna ...
 
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You keep blanking my article without any attempt at discussion! What do you THINK is "nonsense"? --[[User:HanzoHattori|HanzoHattori]] 16:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
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It seems that now you have decided that the blast and the 1495 attack is a part of the war dated 1496-99, the [[Russo-Swedish War (1496-99)]]. It seems to me that you do not have a grasp of chronology and that your idea is mistaken. How an incident, containing an attack, that took place in 1495, can be a part of a war 1496-99 ? Better reasons and more solid evidence than now given are needed. It also seems to me that you have not participated in discussion where the chronological mismatch was pointed, you just made the edit as you decided, without regard to input from other editors. [[User:Shilkanni|Shilkanni]] 17:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Yes I agree - I'll happily canvas the wikiproject members - perhaps you know others who edit architecture articles - giano, wetman etc.?
I've been thinking about a kind of architectural "signpost" where we could transclude a weekly newletter to project members, it seems like a drudge to me though to administer, so i'll post the idea on the project noticeboard and see if there are any takers. --[[User:Mcginnly|Mcginnly]] | [[User talk:Mcginnly|Natter]] 00:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 
== Pen is mightier than the sword ==
 
When you said "please expand" did you mean the [[the pen is mightier than the sword|article]] or the [[Template_talk:Did_you_know#November_13|synopsis]]? I expanded the later; if you meant the former, I've tried to keep what is there succinct. I have somewhat of a derth of pre-1839 references at my disposal but I could see what I could do. -- [[User:Kendrick7|Kendrick7]]<sup>[[User_talk:Kendrick7|talk]]</sup> 08:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
:Kendrick, I was thinking about the article. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 08:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
::Ah, OK, well it is getting better. I've got more to work in, but must sleep. -- [[User:Kendrick7|Kendrick7]]<sup>[[User_talk:Kendrick7|talk]]</sup> 11:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Hello! [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicol%C3%B2_Navazosio&type=revision&diff=1006147290&oldid=1005164744 Your edit summary] is odd, based on the article [[Grand Duchy of Moscow]], it was established in 1263? The source is also pretty explicit in naming Muscovy, not Russia in general. Can you explain further why you changed it? Does the article on the Grand Duchy of Moscow need to be corrected? [[User:Cplakidas|Constantine]] [[User talk:Cplakidas| ✍ ]] 10:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
Nice work creating this template. I've seen most of these names before but a few of them puzzles me, in particular the name "Alaborg" The only name that jumps to mind is the Faroese name for [[Aalborg]], but are you referring to the same town? Just curious.
* Answered at [[Talk:Nicolò Navazosio]] [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 11:23, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
 
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Hello. I would like to know your opinion. Do you think I should add coordinates to the text or to the top right corner ? Thank you. - [[User:Darwinek|Darwinek]] 09:59, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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== [[FêteAnna champêtreof Russia]] ==
 
Anna was famed for her big cheek, "which, as shown in her portraits", says Thomas Carlyle, "was comparable to a Westphalian ham".
Fêtes champêtre must be a lot more fun where you come from, in Italy we keep our clothes on! [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 13:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
:LOL. You know it snows here in Yaroslavl. I associate the term with Giorgione's painting and think it worthwhile to mention another meaning of the word. If you think otherwise, you are welcome to restore Lancret's painting. Nevertheless, [[fête galante]] claims that "the term "fête galante" is used most often to refer to a genre of drawings and paintings depicting such parties". The same goes for fêtes champêtre. ''[[The Luncheon on the Grass]]'' was the 19th-century take on Fête champêtre, I think. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 14:16, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
::No no, leave things as they are I'm all for healthy nudity, so long as it's not me when the wasps and mosquitos come to join the feast. [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 14:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes I've often wondered about that painting too, why if it was so hot the women had to take all their clothes off, while the men sat in ties and even coats? My wife would say that was gratuitous! [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 14:53, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
::::The answer is obvious. The grisettes on Monet's painting are nude because it is a parody of Giorgione's work. Mythological associations which seemed natural to an early 16th-century artist, seemed offensive when transported to a realistic bourgeois setting of the Parisian suburbia. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 15:22, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
:::::Right OK! Nothing to do with liking to see ladies with their kit off then? [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 15:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 
Was that some sort of joke?--[[User:Quisqualis|Quisqualis]] ([[User talk:Quisqualis|talk]]) 23:35, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
I must remember to suggest that we take the children on a [[fête champêtre]] or [[fête galante]] the next weekend it is sunny. So much more pleasant than a bourgeois [[picnic]]. -- [[User:ALoan|ALoan]] [[User talk:ALoan|(Talk)]] 15:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
:::ALoan it is November - your wife and every other woman will refuse to enter into the spirit of tha affair, and you will be left looking very blue and very small! [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 15:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Who do you think he is on fi.wiki? <tt class="plainlinks">[[User:Khoikhoi|Khoi]][[User talk:Khoikhoi|khoi]]</tt> 04:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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== [[Abbey Sozan]] ==
Hello, Ghirlandajo! I noticed that you have contributed to several ballet-related articles. [[User:Keitei|Keitei]] and I have begun a WikiProject for Ballet in my userspace. We hope to recruit enough members to make this a feasible WikiProject, and would appreciate your support! You can join at [[User:Editor at Large/WikiProject Ballet|the WikiProject page]] or leave any suggestions on the talk page. <br> Thanks! — [[User:E@L/Esperanza|<font color=#336600 face=papyrus>E</font>]][[User:E@L|<font color=darkred face=papyrus>ditor <font color=black>at</font> <font color=darkgoldenrod>L</font>arge</font>]][[User talk:E@L|<sup><font color=darkgoldenrod face=papyrus>(<font color=black>speak</font>)</font>]] 13:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 
Does this mean that the French-language article [[fr:Abbaye de Sozan]] should also be deleted? What about the part in ''[[in pectore]]'' where it says the Prince-Abbot of Sozan was created a cardinal ''in pectore''? Or the Sozan-related files in the Commons? --[[User:Orangemike|<span style="color:#F80">Orange Mike</span>]] &#124; [[User talk:Orangemike|<span style="color:#FA0">Talk</span>]] 23:37, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
== [[Polish Expedition to Kiev]] ==
*Of course it should. [[:File:Eglise abbatiale du chapitre Saint-Michel de Sozan.jpg]] represents an ordinary parish church (according to the Ukrainian Wikipedia, consecrated in 1821). I guess it should be renamed. [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 19:51, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
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You are engaged in a move-war over [[Polish Expedition to Kiev]]. You refuse to discuss it on talk and you won't discuss it here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ghirlandajo&diff=87761422&oldid=87760816]. This is your warning... [[User:William M. Connolley|William M. Connolley]] 20:00, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
== [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion|Proposed deletion]] of [[:File:Litovchenka.jpg]] ==
:William, it is best to investigate the matter before throwing "warnings". More [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AWilliam_M._Connolley&diff=88272770&oldid=88245173 here]. --[[User:Irpen|Irpen]] 20:36, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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:Irpen, it would be best if you addressed the substance - the refusal to talk and the removal of polite attempts at discussion here [[User:William M. Connolley|William M. Connolley]] 21:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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William, you should have looked at the history of that page to see who wrote the article and who started moving it at whim. Actually, I initiated discussion of the move on the appropriate noticeboard [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Russia/Russia-related_Wikipedia_notice_board&diff=prev&oldid=88194413 quite some time ago] and received no feedback whatsoever. The discussion is linked from the Russian new articles noticeboard, which both my opponents have on their watchlists. As well known to everyone regularly editing these topics, I don't speak with Appleseed and Piotrus unless they apologise for years that I've been subjected to their personal attacks and incivilities. This latest delation is another rude attempt to denounce me behind my back and to bring in an observer who has no clue as to the substance of the content dispute. It does not help to clear the air, on the contrary. Finally, in contrast to Appleseed and Co, I don't engage in edit warring, I engage in creating new stuff. Before your unwarranted interference, I started today the articles about [[Gnezdovo]], [[Sarskoe Gorodishche]], [[Alaborg]], [[Timerevo]], [[Black Grave]], [[Dmitry Samokvasov]], [[Lyubsha]]... have I forgotten anything? Now I have to stop writing another article and go argue endlessly with revert warriors whose own articles I have yet to see. That it's useless to talk with them I know from years of experience. One look at [[Talk:Jogaila]] and its endless archives says it all. Do I want to drag myself into a similar mire over some petty issue? No I don't. Furthermore, your failure to issue a warning to a disruptive troll ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AWilliam_M._Connolley&diff=87150097&oldid=86786336 when I asked a couple of days ago]) and your ready jumping into an ordinary content dispute in this case... well, I would not jump to conclusions about your standards... these conclusions are pretty obvious to everyone. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 22:52, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
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Is it true that the Latvian word for "Russians", ''krievi'', is derived from the name of the Krivichs tribe? I'm asking just out of curiosity. [[User:Beit Or|Beit]] [[User talk:Beit Or|Or]] 13:03, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
:Yes it's true. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 13:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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what a weirdo... I tried to clean up [[Cambyses]], but he really needs to be taught some guidelines. [[User:Dbachmann|dab]] <small>[[User_talk:Dbachmann|('''&#5839;''')]]</small> 17:28, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
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Nice work on this, as well as [[Alaborg]] and the others. Also thanks for helping to clean up and expand the art section in [[Sviatoslav I of Kiev]]. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 20:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
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Didn't you actually mean [[Gaumata]]? [[User:Space Cadet|Space Cadet]] 22:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
:My edit history shows what I had in mind. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 09:08, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Assuming that [[Darius the Great]] wasn't lying, [[Gaumata]] would make it a grand total of two. There were lots and lots of fakers out there claiming to be all sorts of people (my favorite is that 19th century joker who claimed to be the 375-year-old [[Sebastian of Portugal]]), but NONE of them actually took over and sat on a throne for real.
I put down what I did because, the first False Dmitry was unique in that he managed to actually pull it off.
 
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Why did you remove the mention of [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/browse_frm/thread/62608f2d908cc6cd/2f6796707f1dc267?q=randi James Randi being refused contact by Church officials] on grounds of '[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holy_Fire&diff=56118080&oldid=56117971 vanity]'? Who's vanity? I researched the issue on Google Groups, among other places, found this interesting bit and added a mention to it in this article. Some guy's personal correspondence with Randi is not very reputable evidence, but neither is it vanity.
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== Sourcing on some old information about GUM ==
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Hello! There is a user who has been cleaning up some articles apparently, and removing unsourced materials. I saw this type of removal on the article about [[GUM (department store)]]. The information is interesting, so I am curious if you have a citation for it anyway (perhaps from a Russian language source?). Your insertion was here, all the way back in 2006 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GUM_%28department_store%29&diff=prev&oldid=53153064. Cheers! [[User:Top5a|Top5a]] ([[User talk:Top5a|talk]]) 07:45, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
I'm working on Andrea Palladio on the norwegian Wikipedia, and I notice that You have introduced Villa Chiericati as a redirect to Palazzo Chiericati, and used a picture of the latter as if it were a picture of the former in the article [[Palladian Villas of the Veneto]]. These buildings are not the same. The Palazzo is inside [[Vicenza]], but the villa is in the countryside - as it should be. The villa has a temple front but no wings. I have not found any pictures of the villa on commons. [[User:Haros|Haros]] 08:56, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 
:This is an LTA, all removals mortivated by OR must be rolled back. They changes the IP addresses daily which makes the tracking more difficult. [[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 21:26, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
::*An easy and very common mistake (made by many Italians too).
::Thank you very much. I am an inexperienced editor, yet I see so much abuse in this manner (you can probably tell how much it irritates me if you see my user page). By the way, I enjoyed your page, thank you so much for all your contributions to the original vision of Wikipedia. Cheers! [[User:Top5a|Top5a]] ([[User talk:Top5a|talk]]) 23:16, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
::The more recent edits at least same to be in the same range: [[Special:Contributions/2603:7000:2101:AA00:0:0:0:0/64|2603:7000:2101:AA00:0:0:0:0/64]]. I have noticed these for a while so I am not sure if the older edits will still be in that range. [[User:Mellk|Mellk]] ([[User talk:Mellk|talk]]) 23:31, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
:::Thanks, I have blocked the range, initially for two weeks. [[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 11:14, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
:::Just so you know, that range immediately went back to the same activity as soon as the block expired. @[[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] Cheers. [[User:Top5a|Top5a]] ([[User talk:Top5a|talk]]) 23:29, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
::::Not yet, but if you see again the removal of unsourced but plausible material pls let me know, I will block the range long-term. [[User:Ymblanter|Ymblanter]] ([[User talk:Ymblanter|talk]]) 05:41, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
:::::Hello, again! Just wanted to let you know that there were some recent edits made to the lede of the GUM page, as well as a renaming of the page, and I do not have the ability or knowledge to verify those changes. cc: @[[User:Mellk|Mellk]] [[User:Top5a|Top5a]] ([[User talk:Top5a|talk]]) 19:49, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
 
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::Perhaps the page could be renamed the "Works of Palladio" there may not be wings as such, but I would be amazed if somewhere Palladio had not designed a range of staff and agricultural buildings to complement the villa, even [[Villa Capra "La Rotonda"]] had such a feature hidden away. The picture of the Villa shows something to ones side, but that may be a later addition. I'll see what I can re-search [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 11:26, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
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:::I don't think renaming that page is the solution. As "Palladian Villas of the Veneto" is on the UNESCO list of world heritage, it should stay. Someone (perhaps me if I get around to writing an article on that villa in :no) might create an article about it. On [[:no:Palazzo Chiericati]] I have a link to ''The Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio''s page on [http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=57&lingua=e Palazzo Chiericati] where also [http://www.cisapalladio.org/veneto/scheda.php?sezione=4&architettura=44&lingua=e Villa Chiericati] exist. I'm working from books, but these webpages are useful as well.
 
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:::There are no wings on la Rotunda - it was never intended as an agricultural building. Palladio did not include it among his villas, but among the town buildings in ''quattro libri''. But it is identical (almost) on 4 sides. There are some additional buildings along the driveway - where you are entering it if visiting it today. I think these are more recent, but do not have the source for thast information here and now. [[User:Haros|Haros]] 15:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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::::*I have just written a quick stub [[Villa Chiericati]]. Tha ancillary buildings at Villa Capra were built sometime after 1591 probably by Vincenzo Scamozzi. [[User:Giano II|Giano]] 15:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
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:I did not try to imply that it was not - just in case :-) The timing thing is strange. Good change to the picture text in the Palladian villa ... article by the way. The Palazzo is also mentioned on the list, but in the context of Vicenza. Until next time - bye. [[User:Haros|Haros]] 16:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Hi, Ghirlandajo! The problem I had with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gnezdovo&diff=88595110&oldid=88483958 this] was that the spelling used in scholarly literature refers to the archaeological site, not to the modern village. Yet, the very first line of the article says that "Gnyozdovo is a village", and only then discusses the archaeological site. Ideally, the village information should be split out (to "Gnyozdovo"), but since there is not nearly enough information even for a marginal stub, my suggestion would be to rephrase the lead. The end result, in my view, should look like [[Timerevo]], where there is nothing to complain about. Please let me know if it's not feasible or if you prefer an alternative solution. Thanks.&mdash;[[User:Ezhiki|Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky)]]&nbsp;•&nbsp;([[User talk:Ezhiki|yo?]]); 21:30, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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Hi, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treaty_of_Ni%C5%A1_(1739)&direction=next&oldid=55774213 here] you added the {{tl|efron}} templave. I fail fo find the corresponsing article in Efron (I was looking for Нишское соглашение and Нишский договор . Maybe I was not diligent enouhg :-) --[[user:Altenmann|Altenmann]] [[user talk:Altenmann|>talk]] 10:18, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
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* Добрый день, давно не встречались) За давностью лет, конечно, источник не вспомню. Проще убрать шаблон. [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]<sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 17:04, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
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As a reply to your message on my talk page, Dvina River delta is [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=64.533333,40.533333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=64.533333,40.533333 here]. Kindly follow the river to see that it flows from the [[Perm]] area. The present-day [[Perm Krai]] is a part of the ancient Perm, known as the [[Great Perm]]. --[[User:Drieakko|Drieakko]] 16:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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:I'm not going to argue with you from where the Dvina River flows, because it is common knowledge that [[Sukhona]] flows from [[Lake Kubenskoye]], which is part of [[Vologda Oblast]], a long way from [[Perm Krai]]. As to your article about the "princely state" with the capital in [[Cherdyn]] it is based on online spoof and as such meets our criteria for speedy deletion. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 16:31, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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::Ghirla, kindly slow down in your hasty actions. A major tributary to Dvina called [[Vychegda]] flows from the Perm area, see [http://vychegda-river.search.ipupdater.com/] or [http://www.wtvl.net/kotlas/kotlas/dvina_basin.gif]. As for the [[Great Perm]], it is not a spoof and the related article was just the only online reference I found. --[[User:Drieakko|Drieakko]] 16:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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I have no idea for corretc title. I merely moved the article, since it squatted the page [[Petrushka]]. I wasn' thinking too long, assumed similarly to ''L'Oiseau de feu'' and ''Le sacre du printemps'' that the original title was in French. Now I see that both latter titles are translated in English in wikipedia and basically agree with this. Which name you think is better: [[Petrushka (ballet)]] or [[Petrushka (Stravinsky)]] (I seee both versions in interwikis)? `'[[user:mikkalai|mikkanarxi]] 17:05, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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Do you have any information on the strength of the Livonian side, and the casualties of both sides? --[[User:Ineffable3000|Ineffable3000]] 19:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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== DYK nom ==
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|} Many thanks for the scouting again.'''[[User:Blnguyen|Blnguyen]]''' ([[User talk:Blnguyen|bananabucket]]) 01:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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I like this idea very much. I will work on some improvements over the next few days when I'm able. [[User:Briangotts|Briangotts]] [[User talk:Briangotts|(Talk)]] [[Special:Contributions/Briangotts|(Contrib)]] 05:00, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 
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<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Ambox warning orange.svg|48px|alt=|link=]]</div>[[:Category:Defunct towns in Russia]] has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categorization]] guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at '''[[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 June 21#Category:Defunct towns in Russia|the category's entry]]''' on the [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion|categories for discussion]] page.<!-- Template:Cfd-notify--> Thank you. [[User:Solidest|Solidest]] ([[User talk:Solidest|talk]]) 11:21, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
== Your accusations ==
Hey, I would like you to explain your serious (and quite pointless tbh) accusations at my talkpage. To be honest,Ghirlandajo, you are saying me that I am a neonazi and I deny Holocaust? --[[User:Pudeo|Pudeo]] ([[User_talk:Pudeo|''Talk'']]) 12:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
:Nope, I don't know anything about you except that you have been cited by Arbitration Commitee as a sockpuppet of a user permabanned for disruption. I saw you accuse respected editors who oppose nazi propaganda in the project of being "wikistalinists". Please don't do this again. This is simply not acceptable. --<font color="FC4339">[[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]]</font> <sup><font color="C98726">[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</font></sup> 12:34, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 
== Edit warring ==
== [[:Image:Confederation of Livonia 1260.svg]] ==
 
I don't know where you come with Russian -> East Slavic nonsense. Are you deliberately POV pushing? [[User:Beshogur|Beshogur]] ([[User talk:Beshogur|talk]]) 11:13, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
I added the [[Battle of Rakovor]] to [[:Image:Confederation of Livonia 1260.svg]], along with a couple of other locations ([[Fellin]] & [[Ascheraden]]) and did a bit of minor touch-up as well. Thanks for the suggestion. [[User:MapMaster|MapMaster]] 16:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC) P.S. For my money, I would think that the name of the battle should be the Battle of Wesenberg in keeping with the name of the town in 1268, but I won't change it.