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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

On Russia and USSR medal counts at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, click on the history of the article, then click on the last December 2, 2006 edit. This has the medal count listed seperately for both nations. Chris 21:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Chris 22:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Andreea Raducan 2002 Li Ning Cup Floor.png)

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Eagle Nebula

Hello please weigh in on your 2006 change to the Eagle Nebula wherein you stated that the protostars are only found aplenty in that nebula. In particular, would you please provide a citation to back up this statement and review the current wording to make sure it is still accurate? Thanks. WilliamKF 20:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Russian fencers

Tx for your great edits! If you have time and interest, you might also want to edit mazina and charikov (sharikov?). --Epeefleche 20:08, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You helped choose Vladimir Lenin as this week's WP:ACID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
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Perelman

Hi. You might consider whether it's really worth your time answering to that strange rant on Talk:Grigori Perelman. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 16:49, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Images from www.gymnast.ru

Greetings, Cmapm! I noticed the images you uploaded a while ago from http://www.gymanst.ru/. They currently do not mention who the copyright holder is which is necessary per Wikipedia's policy regarding Wikipedia:Non-free content. I unfortunately cannot read Russian, so I cannot go to the website and discover who the copyright holder is. Is it the website owner? A photographer who licensed his/her images for the website? And in which country were they born and when was the photograph published? If you could help to answer these questions, I would appreciate it. Regards, Iamunknown 20:05, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When you edit an article, make sure what you're editing is a clean revision :-)

Hi, when you edited North Pole in January you missed some vandalism, causing all subsequent editors to miss a section deletion (a very obvious one, too: "ocean between the Pole and Canada's therwise, until 1999..." --should be pretty obvious that there's something missing). I found the deleted text by wading through the article history and also the reason why other editors missed the deletion, because it was followed by a string of legitimate edits. :-) - ∅ (∅), 13:21, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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May 2007

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Estonian SSR. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content which gains a consensus among editors. Digwuren 16:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yuri Gagarin

File:Red-flag-on-Reichstag, another angle, no smoke..jpg

Ditto. E104421 00:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for Image:Belarusfilm logo 1980.jpg

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Estonian SSR

You have repeatedly reverted Estonian SSR into a less informative version based on WP:IDONTLIKEIT wrapped in bogus claims of policy violation. I have reported it on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Cmapm on Estonian SSR.

You're welcome to comment on the issue there. Digwuren 19:40, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Username confusion

I saw your username and immediately read it as Smarm. I then read your user page which has a much better explanation. Romanization is a funny thing I guess. —dgies^t_c 23:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A word of advice

You are dealing with an extremely skillful opponent. Beware! Do not let yourshelf to be drawn into any trap, like WP:3RR.
Be WP:CIVIL, even if your gut says otherwise.
Do not expect talk pages, or other normal dispute resolution processes to produce any outcome. You will be talked to death.

-- Petri Krohn 01:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Lenin Peace Prize

Can you find and add references to the names I added in Lenin Peace Prize? -- Magioladitis 22:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

On 7 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Armed Forces sports society, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 19:08, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Privet

Can you help me on Central Armed Forces Museum. Do you think I should explain the exposition hall by hall? --Kuban Cossack 14:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Traditional Chinese Chracters and the PRC

Why did you remove the Traditional Characters from the infobox? It is a native form of the text and native to China, as well as official in HONG KONG and in MACAO. and other nations have multiple languages and scripts in their infobox and in the article at the same time. So...Why not the PRC? Nat Tang ^{talk to me! | Check on my contributions!|Email Me!} 22:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please, provide an example of the article, where alternative scripts of the same language are used in the infobox. Cmapm 22:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

India, Russia, Mongolia... Nat Tang ^{talk to me! | Check on my contributions!|Email Me!} 22:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, there are romanizations, like pinyin in Chinese. Cmapm 22:20, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Education in the Soviet Union

Why do you remove universities from this category? Why those, which functioned in the Soviet period shouldn't be there? I'm reverting your changes as nonsense. Cmapm 23:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I say it makes very little sense to separate those in Russia from those in the Soviet Union. Countries, regimes, etc. come and go while universities remain unchanged. Would you, for example, have a cat for Cities in the Soviet Union in addition to the Cities in Russia cat? I am working on making subcats for Russian universities by the cities. Soviet Union just does not fit. I will post it CFD unless you can convince me otherwise. Mhym 09:16, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Petri Krohn's behaviour

Thank you for your interest in topics regarding the Baltic republics and the Soviet occupation. This interests has undoubtedly familiarised you with tactics and behaviour of Petri Krohn.

I have prepared a thorough overview of these tactics, along with references to related Wikipedia policy, and posted it to his userpage, requesting that he stop such activities, especially representing private alternative histories on Wikipedia as thought they were fact.

Unfortunately, he proceeded to delete the request mere seven minutes later, along with an inflammatory edit summary. I do not believe this to have been a proper reaction.

Please, if that will not be too inconvenient, take a look at the situation, evaluate it, and consider expressing your evaluation in the appropriate manner.

Many thanks, Digwuren 16:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I guess Digwuren was intending to inform you of this: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Petri Krohn. -- Petri Krohn 22:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, this was the preliminary probe, provided to a different set of users, to see whether I was alone in noticing the problems described. It turns out I wasn't. Digwuren 22:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As if my talk page were a place for RfC filing. In Wikipedia in such cases one sentence containing a link is enough. Cmapm 23:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who knows? :) Cmapm 23:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spreading some Wikilove :D

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June 2007

Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Estonian SSR, you will be blocked from editing. Digwuren 18:45, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I listed my points for the revert at Talk:Estonian_SSR, please address them instead of posing as "a victim of a vandal".Cmapm 18:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Digwuren & Co

What's wrong with that source, dare to give me a overview? AFAIK this is peer reviewed publication. Also the "bankrupcy" and grain thing is mentioned in more than many publications.

Also, please do not refer me as Digwuren & Co. Thank you. Suva 18:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An author is a notoriuos Russian politician, you should cite better source if you say there are many of them. Cmapm 18:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't add this reference there. It was there before, I just reverted attempts to remove sourced information. Dare to share why he is notoriuos? Suva 18:59, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, controversial to say the least. See article on him in Russian wiki it has details on this instead of a short English wiki article. Cmapm 19:14, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Estonian SSR, you will be blocked from editing. Digwuren 18:54, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Once again, I listed my points for the revert at Talk:Estonian_SSR, please address them instead of posing as "a victim of a vandal".Cmapm 18:49, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Technicalities

To undo a particular contribution, you should go to history => cur => undo. Otherwise you delete all the edits that has been done since then, which is by no means appropriate. Colchicum 19:23, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of the Soviet Union

I did read it. The flag did not change in 1955, but in 1980. The info you added does not mention a change of flag at all, rather a ruling to ensure the correct manufacture of the flag, the general design of which was implemented from 1923 - 1980. The 1980 flag is a brighter red, and should not be added to articles concerning events before then. slυмgυм [ ←→ ] 23:22, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I now agree that it did change, but it was not easy to work out. I have just made a small change to the article to clarify it and remove the contradiction below the 2nd pictured flag. I still think it's better to use the 1923 flag for events before 1980, as the colour change is more noticeable in flagicon form than the symbol change. slυмgυм [ ←→ ] 14:41, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Economy of the Soviet Union

aloha sailor, please put back the references to the books. Suwatest 16:00, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just removed your POV on "slavery" from the article. Do you think that Soviet Union was alone in using forced labour? Not to say, that this article is not a place for that. E.g. Economy of North Korea doesn't even mention forced labour although there are a lot of labour camps there.Cmapm 16:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

by Suwatest 05:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC) ... look please more closely - references to the books... you deleted this content:[reply]

* S. Kara-Murza. Soviet Civilization: From 1917 to the Great Victory (in Russian) = Сергей Кара-Мурза. Советская цивилизация. От начала до Великой Победы. - 2004 (ISBN 5-699-07590-9)

* S. Kara-Murza. Soviet Civilization: From the Great Victory Till Our Time (in Russian) = Сергей Кара-Мурза. Советская цивилизация. От Великой Победы до наших дней. - 2004 (ISBN 5-699-07591-7)

* Paul Kennedy. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Random House, New York, 1987

* J. Otto Pohl. The Stalinist Penal System : A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953 : McFarland & Co., 1997 (ISBN 0-7864-0336-5)

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World Festival of Youth and Students

It would have been great to have a separate article about the Moscow festival and about its importance for the history of the Soviet Union. --Ghirla^-трёп- 18:37, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Steveshekhonov already started the page. See 6th World Festival of Youth and Students. --Ghirla^-трёп- 06:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Operation Anadyr

I would like to discuss operation Anadyr with you. You seem to know a fair bit about it. Please contact me with the email link on my profile page. Thanks! Winkie 08:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Replaceable fair use Image:Nikolai Andrianov.jpg

Replaceable fair use

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Fair use rationale for Image:VSS Kolos (Ukrainian SSR) Emblem.png

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Belarusian Republican Youth Union

I got your note and fixing up the article. I also made other changes you did not bring up, such as spelling and reducing fair use images. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image source problem with Image:Artek's logo.gif

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Image source problem with Image:Artistic Gymnastics 1983 Worlds logo.gif

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Image source problem with Image:Artistic Gymnastics 1997 Worlds logo.jpg

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Image source problem with Image:Artistic Gymnastics 2001 Worlds logo.gif

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Fair use disputed for Image:Artistic Gymnastics 2006 Worlds logo.png

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Invitation to a discussion on the Russians talk page

Hello. I started a discussion on the Russians article talk page. Due to the fact that people as i see havent visited it for a long time, every opinion is important and will get attention. The discussion is important for the article. You can find the discussion here:-) Thank you. M.V.E.i. 17:33, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]